Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.

Artists are often the barometers of society.

The Rosetta Stone of Christian social thought is the Trinity.

America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

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

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.