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The Last Christian on Earth (4): The Private-Zoo Factor**

“Privately engaging, socially irrelevant.”  This phrase succinctly summarizes what the Assistant Director calls “the private-zoo factor.”  It is a form of dualism that restricts religion to the personal lives of believers and prevents the Christian faith from invading

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The Last Christian on Earth (3): The Cheshire-Cat Factor**

In more and more areas of life, religion has become irrelevant.  Modern culture has been secularized.  Religion, or more specifically the Christian Church, has not disappeared.  Rather, it has been displaced by the ideas and institutions of

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The Last Christian on Earth (2): The Sandman Effect**

It’s quite likely that more people have been shamed out of their faith than have been argued out of it.  But when most Christians think of defending the faith, they think of making arguments.  The everyday challenges from

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The Last Christian on Earth (1): Operation Gravedigger

“The Christian faith contributed decisively to the rise of the modern world, but it has been undermined decisively by the modern world it helped to create. The Christian faith has become its own gravedigger.”

 

In light of this terse

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