Important Issues ………

I hope that this page will provide some useful information as a follow up on some of the issues facing us as Christians in the world today.  I shall try to make the references useful and intelligent in following a theme.

• Biblical worldview and related issues:

1. Worldview and Christian Education

• A person’s worldview—the basic set of beliefs through which you understand the world—is affected by the influences around them. One of the most important influences in a child’s life is his teacher.

2. Are witches real?

If a person is involved in fortune telling of any kind, tarot cards, Ouija boards, séances, crystal healing, channeling, and astrology, they are involved in the occult. If they are involved in certain types of depth psychology, re-birthing, spiritualism, envisioning other lives, Native American spirituality, ecology spirituality and radical feminist theology, they are probably meddling with the occult as well.

• Christianity and eduction and Childrearing.

1. C.S. Lewis expressed concern about how the modern state could undermine human freedom and dignity if policymakers adopted the approach of modern social science. At the same time, Lewis also doubted the ability of any government to permanently reshape and subordinate a nation’s citizenry. Here then is what Lewis viewed as the major threats to human freedom in modern society.

· Threat - Science

· Threat - Post

• Designed for Sex

What We Lose When We Forget What Sex Is For

by J. Budziszewski

Liberation Fatigue

Naomi Wolf, in her book Promiscuities, reports that when she lost her own virginity at age 15, there was “something important missing.” Apparently, the thing missing was the very sense that anything could be important. In her book Last Night in Paradise, Katie Roiphe poignantly wonders what could be wrong with freedom: “It’s not the absence of rules exactly, the dizzying sense that we can do whatever we want, but the sudden realization that nothing we do matters.”

A Basic Theology of Marriage.