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Notes on Carl Henry's The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism

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I recently took notes over Carl F.H. Henry’s The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. Written in 1947 (when “fundamentalism” and “evangelicalism” were equivalent terms), Henry’s call was for a theologically informed and socially engaged evangelicalism. Henry was concerned that, through its separatist mentality and tendency to separate social action from the concern of the Christian, modern […]

Keeping an Eye on the Backward Clock: How Getting Things Done Relates to the Biblical Call for Holiness

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Scott Belsky, in Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality: The notion of the backward clock is simple: if you were told the exact year, day, and time that your life would end, would you manage your time and energy any differently? Even if that date were seventy-three years, twelve days, two […]

Some Spiritual Advice

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I’m not sure that the essence of repentance is being able to list of all your sins to the Lord. Obviously, it is crucial to recognize our specific sins, confess, and repent. But it seems to me that we also have to recognize before the Lord our sin of not being able to see all […]

The Greatest Need in Developing Nations

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Peter Drucker: “The greatest need in underdeveloped countries is people who build … an effective organization of skilled and trained people exercising judgment and making responsible decisions.”