Culture

Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers

David Hall
Mar 3, 2016
Colonial thinkers Samuel Adams and Rev. Jonathan Mayhew argued against the innate goodness of man with implicit reference to King George III: “Ambition and lust for power,” they claimed, “are predominant passions in the breasts of most men. . . . power is of a grasping, encroaching nature . . . [it...

Election Year at Place For Truth

Jonathan Master
Feb 25, 2016
How should Christians act and speak in the midst of this loud and divisive political season? While the websites devoted to politics and news will give you the latest buzz and the minute-by-minute analysis, our approach at Place for Truth will be slightly different. What we’d like to provide is some...

Safeguarding a Faithful Ministry

Mark Johnston
Feb 23, 2016
The animal kingdom is full of ‘protected species’. From the Great Crested Newt to the Giant Panda, the White Rhino to the Western Lowland Gorilla, it is a criminal offence to interfere with them or kill them. Sadly there is no such protective status for the species minister gospelensis – minister...

How Should We Then Defend?

Scott Oliphint
Jan 25, 2016
I suspect that 2015, from a Christian perspective, will go down in history as one of the darkest and gloomiest years of human history. The cavalier destruction of human life, in the name of religion, is on the rise worldwide. No matter how much we protest that terrorists will not change our way of...

How Should We Then Defend?

Scott Oliphint
Jan 25, 2016
I suspect that 2015, from a Christian perspective, will go down in history as one of the darkest and gloomiest years of human history. The cavalier destruction of human life, in the name of religion, is on the rise worldwide. No matter how much we protest that terrorists will not change our way of...

Less Gushing, More Blushing

David George Moore
Sep 24, 2014
Biographical description many pastors write for the web site of their church: "Married to the most beautiful woman in the world." "We have the best youth pastor in the country." "He's the smartest guy in every room..." I often joke that the most beautiful woman in the world must be getting very...

Stolen Capital: The Weight of Words in Hozier's "Take Me to Church"

Pierce T. Hibbs
Sep 9, 2014
I'm not a musicologist or a respected lyrical critic. In fact, I don't know much at all about music. I'm a novice theologian who can't help but be pricked when he hears what is played on the radio during his morning commute. This week, it happened to be the song, "Take Me to Church," by Hozier. The...

Stolen Capital: The Weight of Words in Hozier's "Take Me to Church"

Pierce T. Hibbs
Sep 9, 2014
I'm not a musicologist or a respected lyrical critic. In fact, I don't know much at all about music. I'm a novice theologian who can't help but be pricked when he hears what is played on the radio during his morning commute. This week, it happened to be the song, "Take Me to Church," by Hozier. The...

What the Hijabi Witnessed (and What She Didn't)

Carl Trueman Articles
Aug 26, 2013
I have had the pleasure on a couple of occasions of sitting next to a girl wearing a hijab. Typically, this has occurred in departure lounges of airports or on the platforms of railway stations. Never has it happened in a place of worship at the time of a service. Never, that is, until recently. On...

What the Hijabi Witnessed (and What She Didn't)

Carl Trueman Articles
Aug 26, 2013
I have had the pleasure on a couple of occasions of sitting next to a girl wearing a hijab. Typically, this has occurred in departure lounges of airports or on the platforms of railway stations. Never has it happened in a place of worship at the time of a service. Never, that is, until recently. On...