What Concord Hath Christ with Marx: Can Socialism and Marxism be Christianized?
Socialism has become a dominant topic of discussion in American culture recently. Since the 2016 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders (b. 1941), many Democrats across America have made public their affinity for socialism and socialist policies. No one who has spent time on a state or liberal private university campus in recent years should be surprised by this development. Democrats are simply playing to a significant portion of...
Living Near the Land: An Autobiography of Agrarianism
by Phillip T. and Megan M. Morgan The excitement surrounding the 2017 documentary, Look and See, which engages the agrarian thought of Wendell Berry, highlights some of the fault lines in modern America. Many have grown tired of the empty promises of industrialization, while others have simply noted the soulless and placeless quality of the ubiquitous concrete and mallscapes of our cities. Even those in rural America have not escaped...
The End of History
Christianity is inherently concerned with history. Early twentieth-century historian Marc Bloch went so far as to say, “Christianity is a religion of historians.”[1] He could make this claim because, unlike other religions, Christianity doesn’t derive its doctrines or rituals from mythology that is inherently outside time. Rather, “for sacred books, the Christians have books of history.”[2] The Bible is filled with history and...
The Kosmos and the Logos
Christians hold to a persuasive argument for what living the good life means. We believe that God has created all things through His ordered thought, the Logos (Jn. 1:1-3; Col. 1:16). When we conform ourselves to the image of the Logos, we are most fully alive. The ancient Greeks also held a belief in a transcendent order embedded in the universe. In an earlier essay, I explained that the early church recognized the truth of this...
“A Critical Place”: Hannah Dow and the Memoirs of Nineteenth-century Women Missionaries
The first entry in Hannah Gould Dow’s journal records her decision to enter the mission field. On June 17, 1843, having found out that her fiancé J. C. Dow had been approved by the Freewill Baptist Board of Foreign Missions (Randall Movement) to serve as a missionary in India, she wrote, “I am now placed in a critical place. The question is, ‘Shall I go or not?’”[1] Like a growing number of young New England women, she answered in the...
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