by Bill Farley | Apr 26, 2021 | Culture, Sexual Revolution, social justice
DURING THE CIVIL WAR, Abraham Lincoln, attempting to describe the American division over chattel slavery, quoted Jesus. No “house divided against itself will stand” (Matthew 12:25). Of course, the “house” Jesus had in mind was not civil government. Jesus had...
by Bill Farley | Feb 8, 2021 | Culture, Masculinity
EVERYONE KNOWS THE STORY of the 1912 sinking of the R. M. S. Titanic. The great ship hit and iceberg and began to break up. However, there weren’t enough lifeboats to save the 1,317 passengers, so a triage question arose. Who should be saved? Many wealthy and...
by Bill Farley | Nov 9, 2020 | Culture, theology
WESTERN CULTURE IS SHAKING. It is a time of significant social instability. The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police unleashed a torrent of rage. Large segments of our society have demonstrated, even rioted, for something enigmatically called...
by Bill Farley | May 18, 2020 | Culture
THE BIBLE MAKES ONE FACT EXQUISITELY CLEAR; God’s sovereignty is exhaustive. For example, even though the average female has 100,000 hairs on her head, Jesus reminds us that each one is numbered (Matthew 10:30). Neither does a sparrow fall from the bush without God’s...
by Bill Farley | Oct 25, 2019 | Culture, Sexual Revolution
MASS SHOOTINGS ARE AN UNSETTLING REALITY OF MODERN LIFE. Take the first weekend in August. Two separate shooters terrorized El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. Thirty-two died, and fifty-two were wounded, exacerbating the national debate about the causes of these...
by Bill Farley | Mar 25, 2019 | Culture, Humility, Pride, Sanctification
CULTURAL ASSUMPTIONS ARE LIKE a set of glasses through which we view life. Those who have never taken the glasses off think what they see is what all people, in all places, at all times have seen. Only those who remove them can critique our present...