Wallace B. Henley

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  May 12, 2014

  The Rise of Anti-Christianity in the West

  "There is now a serious risk that Christianity will disappear from its biblical heartlands," said a report by think-tank Civitas about persecution of Christians in the Middle East. Ample evidence suggests there are those who would like Christianity to vanish from the West as well.

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  May 10, 2014

  John Kerry and the Dismissal of Legacy

  A characteristic of our age is disregard or even disdain for history. Deconstructionist academics, infused with nihilism at worst and existentialism at best have trained generations to see history as either meaningless or unimportant. For others, it is a past easily rewritten and squeezed into the profile of modern times.

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  Apr 25, 2014

  Essentials of Church Revitalization: Revitalization Jesus-Style (Pt. 3)

  Revitalization is relational, not institutional, mechanistic or programmatic. The aim is not to create a religious robot, the "bionic church" that has an appearance of life, but the Zoe-Church, functioning with Jesus' life-energy.

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  Apr 24, 2014

  Essentials of Church Revitalization: Revitalization Is About Being the Body of Christ (Pt. 2)

  If revitalization is the recovery of vitality and vitality is the energy of life, the essential revitalization question is: What is the "life" we are attempting to recover? Answer this question wrong and revitalization becomes exhaustion, accelerated institutional entropy (the dissipation of energy), and heightened conflict.

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  Apr 23, 2014

  Essentials of Church Revitalization: The Heart of the Matter (Pt. 1)

  What is this "heart" of church revitalization, and how can it be healed and strengthened? That's the question we will examine in this three-part series.

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  Apr 11, 2014

  Liberal, R.I.P.: A Grievous Obituary

  The noble word "Liberal" has died at the hands of executioners, full of years, but far too soon. A pretender has risen in its place, lurking and laughing Gollum-like behind the tombstones even as the corpse of the esteemed term, "Liberal," is borne to its resting place.

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  Apr 9, 2014

  Lesson on Boundaries: From Pastor Bob Coy to Congressman McAllister

  An ethical lesson from the Nixon White House: Set your boundaries early and sink them in granite. That's the best way to avoid being the star of headlines like those that recently appeared at just about the same time: Megachurch Pastor Bob Coy… Resigns Over 'Moral Failing' (Christian Post). And,'Report: Video shows (Congressman) McAllister kissing staffer' (Po

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  Mar 29, 2014

  Westboro's Fred Phelps and Atheist Bill Maher: Painting From the Same Palette

  Fred Phelps, who died recently, hated certain categories of humanity in the name of God, and Bill Maher hates God in the name of humanity. This is just one of the strange confluences between the preacher and the TV performer.

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  Mar 26, 2014

  Jail Global-Warming Deniers: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

  If Torcello, assistant professor of philosophy at the Institute, has his way, climate change deniers could go to jail. Writing in The Conversation, he cites as precedent the incarceration of six Italian scientists and a local magistrate for failing to communicate earthquake risks to the populace of L'Aquila, Italy. A 2009 quake killed 300 and left some 66,000 homeless.

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  Mar 9, 2014

  German Homeschool Family's Reprieve and Implication on US Educational Policy

  After a harrowing moment at the edge of a legal precipice, the German homeschooling Romeike family will be able to stay in the United States. The journey up that cliff revealed a lot about the worldview of the contemporary US regime and implications for American educational policy.