I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced 'religious fanaticism' as a grave challenge to socialism; failure to contain it, Pravda said, was at the root of the problems in Poland.

You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ.

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.