In recent years, a tragic story has gripped the Canadian public and echoed around the world: allegations of mass graves filled with the remains of Indigenous children at Canadian Residential Schools. They were secretly murdered or disposed of at residential schools run by Christian and Roman...
Wait a minute... I thought "diversity is our strength"? Isn't multiculturalism what gives us the wonderful blessing of being able to eat Thai, Italian, Mexican and other types of food in one city? Aren't all cultures equal? Isn't being against multiculturalism racist? Well, as a half Indian, half...
We live in an age of novelty and 3-second attention spans, where the shelf life for social media content is shorter than a snowflake’s ego in a microwave or a politician’s memory of their campaign promises. For many in the younger generation who have grown up steeped in such a shallow pool of...
In our last few articles in this series unpacking some of the insights of the book The Coddling of the American Mind and considering them in light of Biblical truth. We looked at the untruths of fragility and emotional reasoning. In this article, we will take a look at the final untruth Lukianoff...
We saw in Part 1 the effect of the shift from considering intent to focusing primarily on the felt (subjective) impact of an offensive act or speech. What about the question of whether people are inherently fragile or not? Is there validity to the growing trend of ‘safetyism’? In this article, we...
There has been a decisive shift in out culture towards emotional hypersensitivity, politically correct monitored speech, emotional fragility and outrage at anyone who would raise issues or disagreements with the prevailing norms and accepted truisms of our day. Many within the new generation...
https://youtu.be/652q9x1vYew If you prefer to listen on audio, you can do that below or on APPLE or SPOTIFY. CLICK HERE to download the worksheet for the session. Below you will find my notes for this lecture which includes content I had to skip over in the live event. In Canada, since 2021 over...
G.K. Chesterton once said, “The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible...
Many influential leaders within Evangelicalism’s largest organizations (a.k.a. Big Eva) have compromised on several important issues in recent times. Issues such as Critical Social Justice, LBGTQ and gender roles, a failure to uphold the Lordship of Christ by applying a Biblical worldview to...
Abortion is one of the most evil attrocities of our present age. We must stand against it with truth and compassion. Yet many Christians today don't have a consistent Biblical view on the topic of abortion. Many simply have taken the cultural narrative on abortion for granted and don't see the...