The Humanitas Forum

Dress, manners and morals.  Isn’t it possible that we’ve lost something in our current culture of casual?  Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that, with casual as an almost universal guiding principle, we live in an age of “sloppy …

Pluralism is an everyday reality.  We meet it when we take our children to soccer on Saturday.  It’s present in our schools.  It’s the backdrop to many of the news stories we hear daily.  Pluralism is …

As moral and social disorders increase, the number of things to “never discuss in polite company” multiplies.  Some of the limitations come from legislation, the so-called hate speech laws.  But many, if not most, of the constraints on …

From roughly 1 million members in 1949, the number of Protestant Christians in China has grown to well over 58 million today.  That number is projected to rise to some 160 million by 2025, according to Purdue University sociologist …

In 1954, C. S. Lewis talked about the un-christening of Europe.  In 1966, sociologist Philip Rieff described the “‘deconversion’ of the West from Christianity.” 

Non-Christian was the term used by poet and essayist T. S. Eliot in …

Revisiting the story of the Reformation is a task that all of us should set ourselves to from time to time.  It’s a complex story that is something of a culmination of ongoing efforts at reform—reform envisioned by leaders …

Happiness. Feeling good. No stress. No worries.  These are ways that many Americans describe the good life.  But in an article entitled “Against Happiness,” philosopher Carl Elliott doubts the “wisdom of making psychological well-being the sole measure of …

The church needs to talk about all of creation because Scripture does.  Psalm 24:1 tells us, “The earth is the Lord’s and all that fills it.” We learn from St. Paul’s letter to the Colossians that Jesus Christ was …

The Trinity changes everything!  If this claim is so, how then are the implications worked out in the various realms of life?  How do we get beyond the discussions of the Trinity that we find in standard volumes …

Are ordinary believers “second-class citizens” in the Kingdom of God?  Many of us feel that way today—many others have faced the same dilemma down through the centuries.  It’s the pastors, campus ministers, and missionaries who are called into …