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Nine Big Questions of Every Worldview

Author Darrell Johnson, drawing inspiration from James Sire and N.T. Wright, says that every worldview is asking and trying to answer the following nine ...


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Filmmaker Excludes Latinos in World War II Documentary

It's not all that hard to argue that Ken Burns is the biggest name in the world of documentaries. His stirring works about the Civil War, baseball, ...


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Oskar Schindler Falls to Temptation

Recent anniversary celebrations of the World War II liberation of Europe have again put before our eyes the victims and the heroes of the Holocaust. I ...


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War After War After War

I've been told that there are places in Europe where you can sink a spade into the earth, and in just two or three spadefuls of earth, you can dig ...


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Remember Our Roots

The map of God's activity, then, is not a blank ocean between the apostolic shores and our modern day. So we need to remember--and search for our ...


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Know Your History

There is an aphorism: He who forgets his own history is condemned to repeat it. If we don't know our own history, we will simply have to endure all ...


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All But Faith Is Empty

Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.


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No Useful Past

What is worrisome is the absolute domination of the present in so many homes, and the absence of any shared past. It isn't a class phenomenon so much ...


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Whatever Happened to History?

Some [evangelicals] have fixated upon "me and the Bible, and especially me," so that what Bible reading becomes is primarily an assertion of ...


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When History Changed

Whether he was born in 4 B.C. or A.D. 6, in Bethlehem or Nazareth, whether there were multitudes of the heavenly host to hymn the glory of it or just ...


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