Who is greater, Michelangelo or the teacher who taught him? This was an illustration my teacher and mentor used in his final chapel message to the students at Dallas Theological Seminary. For anyone who studied under Dr. Howard G. Hendricks, lovingly known as “Prof,” the answer to the question was simple: the student who surpassed [...]
Andy Crouch is a master communicator about culture. You’ve never heard of Andy? Well, he calls himself a journalist—“one who makes the complex simple”—and works for the magazine Christianity Today. Andy is, however, more than a journalist, he’s a thinker. And he’s thought a lot about culture. Earlier this week I attended a conference, hosted [...]
There’s a sickness in the soul of America. So says Kurt Cameron, of 1980s “Family Matters” fame, in his new movie Monumental. Citing examples of cultural and political sickness—increases of divorce, teen pregnancy, crime, taxes, and national debt—Cameron asks what we can do to heal our nation. The answer he discovered is found in history—particularly [...]
What does it take to raise an American? I don’t simply mean teaching a child born in the United States not to become homegrown terrorists. I mean a real American—one who, in the words of William Damon, will demonstrate “responsible citizenship in a free society.” [1] What does it take to raise that child? If [...]
Nathaniel Philbrick loves Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. In a departure from his typical historical narratives, Philbrick has penned a short apology for Moby-Dick simply titled, Why Read Moby-Dick? So high is his praise of Melville’s masterpiece, Philbrick called Moby-Dick “the greatest American novel ever written. . . . [T]he book that deserves to be called our [...]
How important was the Bible in establishing Western Civilization? To some, like Michael Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Bible had little to nothing to do with establishing Western Civilization. In a November 2011 Los Angels Times op-ed, “What’s God Got to Do with It,” Shermer takes Congress to task for passing a resolution [...]
Ours is a euphemizing culture. Words no longer mean what they mean. Oh, to be sure, many of our euphemisms are harmless: custodian for “janitor,” correctional facility for “prison,” a little thin on top for “balding.” But some euphemisms are more troubling. For example, “torture” is now enhanced interrogation; “the war on terror” is now [...]
Well, how did you do on the Presidents’ Day quiz? Here are the answers to the forty-four questions if you’d like to check your work. ✯ ✯ ✯ Samuel Huntington was the first man to received the title, “President of the United States.” Huntington served as President of the Continental Congress in 1781, when the [...]
In the 224 years since the creation of the office of the presidency, only forty-four individuals have ever held the title: The President of the United States of America. On this Presidents’ Day, as we remember the men who have held the highest office in our land, here is a fun quiz of forty-four presidential [...]
