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No King But Christ: The Fallacy of the Secular State (opens the original)
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The modern presumption that the public square can maintain complete philosophical neutrality rests on a profound misconception of human nature, civil authority, and the sovereign claims of God over history. Within the classical Reformed tradition, civil magistrates are never viewed as morally agnostic administrators operating within an autonomous, secular vacuum; rather, they are recognized as ministers of God instituted explicitly to punish evil and reward good according to objective, transcend
The Architecture of Proximity (opens the original)
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Modern governance suffers from a fundamental illusion: the belief that centralizing authority makes it more accountable to the public. In practice, the opposite occurs. As the distance between the individual and the seat of power widens, governance ceases to be an organic function of community stewardship and transforms into an extractive, highly financialized market. In this centralized arena, access is auctioned to the highest bidder, elections mutate into multi-billion-dollar media spectacles
The Lie of Merciful Death (opens the original)
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Where is the courage and dignity and fight for life? Instead, the culture of death has permeated our society so thoroughly that just about everyone I have talked to does not think like me.There is the aborting of innocent babies, especially if they have Down syndrome, as they will be a burden to society. There are countless families that are wanting to adopt. There was a Christian couple who chose to adopt a baby who is missing a brain.My mom lost a lot of weight while visiting with her side of
The Luxury of Modern Morals: Why We Misread Old Testament Law (opens the original)
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Modern readers bring an unexamined luxury to ancient texts: the cushion of the safest, least violent era in human history.When a twenty-first-century critic scrolls through the Old Testament, judging Bronze Age civil codes against contemporary human rights charters, a massive historical disconnect occurs. We view the ancient world through a lens conditioned by centuries of Christianized ethics, institutional policing, and historically unprecedented stability. To evaluate Old Testament law accura
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