“No justice, no peace.” Our headlines have been filled with slogans like these even as the streets of America’s largest cities have been filled with those protesting the death of suspects at the hands of policemen. But what concrete steps can our states and municipalities, let alone individual Americans take…

Why do Americans need to know about kings? We are citizens of a Federal Republic. We get to elect our own leaders. In fact, when we go into the voting booth, together we wield the sovereignty of the United States. But that’s all the more reason we need to pay…

It’s not enough to build beautiful buildings if you want God to be glorified. Europe and many parts of the United States are adorned with marvelous ecclesiastical architecture – but no one worships in all too many of these centuries-old sanctuaries. Some have been closed, others have been sold off…

If you were going to write a prayer of thanksgiving, what would you include? Psalm 136 mentions how God rescued His people, first from bondage to slavery in Egypt (v. 11), and throughout their history from other enemies (v. 24). Surely, we could also make mention of how many times…

Would you build a house for someone who doesn’t need it? That’s basically what Solomon did when he built the Temple of God. And he admitted this was the case in the prayer he offered when he was dedicating the newly completed structure: “But will God indeed dwell on the…

Wisdom and understanding – when we think of these things, we often conjure up images of white-coated researchers, or perhaps bespectacled, tweedy philosophy professors. But the Bible has a more comprehensive view, one which insists not only on the possession of knowledge, but also its application in the real world….

Anyone who doubts the power of visual symbols hasn’t been watching the news lately. For the protests that have erupted in the streets of our biggest cities haven’t just called for reforms to (or even abolition of) our police departments. No, many are calling for the removal of Confederate statuary…

“Why do you do this to yourself every weekend?” That’s what I asked the guys on my hall during my Freshman year in college. Most of them went to parties on Friday and Saturday nights and thus spent significant daytime hours with the headaches and the nausea of a hangover….

If terrorist attacks, pandemics and violent riots have made population density dangerous, the internet has rendered it unnecessary. There’s no need to travel to shop at the most exclusive stores or go to the library or even to attend a university. Millions of books have been scanned and are thus…

“The man who cried out that he could not breathe and his life was taken from him, he was crying out for justice, he was crying out for equality, he was crying out for all people, regardless of race, creed or color, who believed in those things. I think change…