The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.

Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.