The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality

“Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.”

The idea that we are free and equal individuals under law with certain inalienable rights was not an Enlightenment discovery but a biblical truth, planted by Genesis, cultivated by the church and blooming brightly in those dark days of medieval Christendom.

If we are outraged by the Crusades—and we should be—that is Christian outrage we’re experiencing.

Resurrection explains why the Victim has come to be Victor.

Crucifixion was either “appropriate” or an unspeakable evil, depending on who was on the cross.

As far as a medieval Christian was concerned, technology was a place where the good of humanity and the glory of God would embrace.

If natural selection means the survival of the fittest and the sacrifice of the weakest, Christianity is about the sacrifice of the Fittest (Jesus Christ) for the survival of the weakest (us).

The future is not in our hands, nor is it in the hands of the powerful, the popular or the perverse. The government is on Christ’s shoulders, and he has promised: “I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.” (Matthew 16:18)

We can study the Bible to know God, and we can study the world to know his handiwork.