Every Roman judge acknowledged that Jesus and Paul were innocent, yet it wasn’t “self-evident” to any of them that they had “inalienable Rights” to life and liberty. The notion of “self-evident” truths is a Rationalist myth. Jefferson would have been honest had he penned, “We hold these truths to be divinely revealed that all men are created equal. . .” Postmodern intellectuals know that (without revelation from Someone who knows) finite minds cannot know any Truth and “a people without knowledge will come to ruin.” (Hosea 4: 6 & 14; Isaiah 59:14-15) continue reading


Ghana dashed America’s hopes for World Cup! As a disappointed President watched the game last Saturday, his PR team may have breathed a sigh of relief: the loss in football diverted the attention away from the much greater loss of his leadership of the G-20 and G-8 nations. continue reading


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Many Indians think that Shakespeare’s Romeo is like Laila’s Majnu, driven crazy by erotic love (in Greek, a language that distinguishes between different types of "love", the word for "sexual love" is Eros). The reality is that Shakespeare wrote his play Romeo and Juliet in England at a time when the two major Christian sects, Protestants and Catholics hated each other enough to prevent their children from marrying each other, just like the play’s two warring households in the Italian city, Verona. continue reading


In his novel, The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown argues that since the Bible “did not arrive by fax from heaven” it cannot be “The Word of God?” But what are words? How do random chemical reactions in a human body turn into rational theories explaining the cosmos, an “inspired” poem celebrating patriotism, a novel promoting parenting, or simply a sentence intended to hurt a sensitive soul? What is language? Is it an accidental product of blind chance or an essence of a spiritual being: mere dust turned into a “living soul” who can infuse meaning, values and judgments into physical sounds and symbols? continue reading


Why is America in a free fall? What can we do about it? These four sermons present a powerful case for how we have misunderstood the source of our problems. While many pointed the finger at President Bush, so now many point it at President Obama. But do we look only at human leaders because we no longer believe that evil has a supernatural dimension? continue reading