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.

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

In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in public - or you risk being hauled into court.

Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.

What we do flows from who we are.

In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.

The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the leading Christians for our cues. We want to emulate the best known preachers with the biggest sanctuaries and the grandest edifices. Preoccupation with these values has perverted the church's message.