Give me a treat or I will play a trick on you
How it all started 2,000 years ago, the Celts started the holiday, calling it Samhain (pronounced: “Sow-in”). The Celts celebrated the New Year on November 1 and believed that the […]
View ArticleHow to resist and defeat Cultural Pressures
We are exposed on every side to cultural pressures. Between the two temptations of escapism and conformism, the latter is more common—that is, accommodation to the prevailing culture. We are exposed to...
View ArticleHoly Worldliness
The church has a double calling: on the one hand to live in the world, and on the other not to conform to the world. The first is a call […]
View Article1 Reason Nations come to ruin
They cast off all restraints… One of the most dangerous things any people, society, culture or nation can do to itself is to cast off all restraint and do whatever […]
View ArticleThe Danger of a Single Story
I recently listened to a TED Talk that left a very good impression on me. You know, one of those things you’ve always felt and wanted to say but you […]
View ArticleThe “Coca-Cola-nization” of the world
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from […]
View ArticleSo long Selfie…
The word “Selfie” first popped up in an Australian chat room on September 13, 2002, to describe an undignified scene. For years after its birth, “selfie” crept through the web […]
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