Sublime

Tom Holland, in his book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, have pointed out just how much modern norms owe to Christianity, even if they’re not explicitly Christian.

challenge the culture,

The idea that human rights, welfare provision and equality will naturally prevail in any educated society was a secular myth, he said: ‘Everything we take for granted as being part of the natural state of things absolutely isn’t, and the reason we have these assumptions is because our society is saturated with Christian assumptions.’

“Christianity isn’t collapsing; it’s being clarified,” wrote Ed Stetzer

Tom and the cultural Christians largely need your dinner table.

to raise the next generation, to protect and teach it, to instill in it the habits of conduct and character that will ensure the generation’s own safe

For Sean, learning to believe the best in others was especially formative, given that his dad is one of the foremost public defenders of Christian truth in recent memory. But Josh McDowell both taught and modeled that even if we disagree with someone, we should still give that person the benefit of the doubt.

a Christian college or church ceases to be relevant when it abandons its conviction-driven distinctions to fit the prevailing winds of politics and culture.