Our Presidential election is coming up on November 5, that’s just 16 days from now. I, and many other pastors I know have wrestled with the issue of whether it’s proper for a pastor to preach about politics. Those who say “yes” believe that preachers must engage with the issues and that to be silent is to be part of the problem. And if Christians don’t talk about politics, who will talk about what God says about the issues? Those who say “no” believe that preachers should preach the Bible only. If the passage addresses a political issue, we should address it, but we shouldn’t go out of our way to preach politics.

A detective ,working solve a crime, may have a lot of facts as evidence, but he can never completely reconstruct the crime until he discovered the motive. This is certainly analogous to the task with which I struggled. What is the overall purpose of Christian Education? Or, to look at is another way: what is God’s purpose for man on earth?

One effect of global, high tech communication on this shrinking planet is the increased exposure we have to other lands, peoples, and worldviews. Today students on major university campuses will likely encounter professors who teach their subjects from vastly different perspectives. For example, a Hindu may be found teaching psychology; a Marxist, history; an existentialist, literature; and a humanist, science. Young people are now confronted with avirtual supermarket of worldviewoptions uponwhich to basetheir lives. As a result, many Christians-confused, defensive, and often in the minority-tend to incorporate much non- Christian thinking into their own worldviews.

This address on "The Scientific Preparation of the Minister" was delivered September 20, 1912, at the opening of theone hundred and first session of Princeton Theological Seminary. It is found in the Princeton Theological Review,Vol. XI, No. 1, 1913, p. 1.

The author of Genesis informs us that the Ark of Noah landed “in the mountains of Ararat”. While this is a general area, it refers to a real location. The key to pinpointing this geographic area is to ask where would the original readers of Genesis have understood it to have been. Geographical and historical studies lead us to conclude that the writer was referring to the mountainous region to the south of Lake Van and north of the historic kingdom of Assyria. It therefore cannot refer to the singular Mt Ararat in north-eastern Turkey as is commonly presumed.

Fascism is essentially a response to the alienation that has been a part of the spiritual landscape of the West since the Enlightenment.

Logic and rationalism, with their cold analyses and denial of basic human impulses, have seemed stifling, heightening the sense of alienation. If objective knowledge is alienating, subjective experience is liberating and healing. Authentic existence comes from unleashing the emotions, cultivating the subjective and irrational dimension of life. The attempts to resolve the dilemma of alienation, understandable as they are, would find concrete and political expression in fascism.[7]

Postmodern Intellectual Buffoonery

A PRIMER ON OCCULT PHILOSOPHY: A Christian Appraisal