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

In order to pursue the kingdom without the King, we have had to dethrone the person of Christ and install abstract values instead.

Resurrection explains why the Victim has come to be Victor.

modern science was invented nowhere else but among devout Christians in a devoutly Christian age, drawing explicitly on Christian beliefs and practices.

Western society has splintered into ever narrower identity groupings, with less and less shared narrative to bind us together.

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)

It is patently unreasonable to call the Middle Ages barren when they contain the glories of medieval cathedrals, the founding of universities, the establishment of parliaments, the poetry of Dante and Geoffrey Chaucer; the list really does go on.

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.

truths espoused (whether in secular or religious creeds) are not always truths owned and applied.

The problem with “power to the people” is… people.