Houston Baptist University scholar/educator Louis Markos, writing in From Achilles to Christ (InterVarsity Press), gives the example of Sophocles’ play Antigone as an affirmation there is a higher, universal, immortal law written in humanity’s heart, mind, and conscience. In Antigone Creon, the governor of the state, has commanded that no one may bury his nephew,
READ MOREThe Christian in politics should be judged by the standard of whether through his decisions and actions he has advanced the cause of justice. The Christian in politics should be distinguished by his alertness to protect and defend the rights of individuals, or religious institutions and other institutions, from violation by the state or by
READ MOREIn an unusually candid speech early last year, a former president of the World Bank made a startling prediction. James Wolfensohn told Stanford Graduate School of Business students that the world is poised on the edge of a major global power shift. He told them that the next few decades will see today’s leading economic
READ MOREThomas Becket, the son of a wealthy Norman merchant living in London, was born in 1118. After being educated in England, France and Italy, he joined the staff of Theobald, the archbishop of Canterbury.When Henry II became king in 1154, he asked Archbishop Theobald for advice on choosing his government ministers. On the suggestion of
READ MOREWith the rhetoric and rancor rising in the campaign for the White House, the election has increasingly become a call to the faithful, with candidates attempting to outdo one another in appealing to religious voters. Indeed, listening to these candidates, one could easily think this is a campaign for ecclesiastical rather than presidential office. One
READ MOREThe result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words "Be just and good" is that in which all our inquiries must end. . . . My answer was "Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to
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