jeremiah from romans 1

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth

In this excerpt, author David Zahl challenges the common belief that religion is “in decline.” He argues that while Westerners, particularly younger generations, may be distancing themselves from the ...

Man’s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Mahatma Gandhi speaking to Christians, “You Christians have in your keeping a document with enough dynamite in it to blow the whole of civilization to bits; to turn society upside down; to bring peace...

Many of us westerners are familiar with the stories of the first Apollo missions and the “space race” with Russia. What we are less familiar with is the experience from the other side, from the Russia...

I take a page from Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death and I define sin as building your identity—your self-worth and happiness—on anything other than God. Instead of telling them they are sinning b...

Sin is looking to something else besides God for your salvation. It is putting yourself in the place of God, becoming your own savior and lord, as it were.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

Reality is what doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it.