Reading for Christian Culture Warriors (updated)
Recommended Weekly Reading for Christian Culture Warriors
Each week, I recommend reading for Christian culture warriors living amid an increasingly hostile culture. This week four of my recommended reads address concerns with public education in our nation.
It is the mission of this blog to offer help and encouragement to live out our faith amidst the moral decline of our culture. And as we enter 2022, challenges to religious freedom, free speech, biblical morality, innocent and defenseless human life continue unabated. That the prevailing culture is becoming more hostile to Christianity is without question. But do not despair. Standing firmly on the Word of God, we can resist evil and shine as lights, offering hope to a darkened world.
In Woke Schools, the Only Thing Being Assigned Is Gender
Many of our public-school systems no longer seem to care what parents want their children to learn. Rather, they push the “woke” agenda.
“Not sure where this ‘parents-should-control-what-is-taught-in-schools-because-they-are-our-kids’ is originating, but parents do have the option to send their kids to a hand-selected private school at their own expense if this is what they desire,” the Michigan Democratic Party posted over the weekend. “The purpose of public education in public schools is not to teach kids only what parents want them to be taught. It is to teach them what society needs them to know. The client of the public school is not the parent — but the entire community, the public.”
Critical Race Theory: Intriguing, but Wrong for K-12 Education
Critical Race Theory is being used to indoctrinate our children in Marxist thinking.
CRT is a movement of admitted far-left scholars who wish to challenge power structures represented in the American legal culture and society with respect to “the rule of law” and “equal protection.” Their belief is that whereas our laws are ostensibly “neutral” and “objective,” they are neither — and never could have been objective in the first place because of the racial dynamic that has been exercised legally and ideologically over the course of American history. Thus, they call for “race-consciousness” in a reexamination of race and racism, which they believe was essentially discarded when the ideas of integration, assimilation, and color-blindness became the official norms. While these ideas are not necessarily bad things in and of themselves, CRT theorists believe current laws continue to promote racial domination and subjugation of people of color in both a systemic and institutional manner, and that legal remediation for past injustices is warranted.
Minnesota School District Partners With Org Offering ‘Pride Resources’ for Toddlers
This quote from the article should be enough to concern any parent.
A Minnesota school district has partnered with an organization that offers LGBTQ-affirming curricula for students as young as three years old.
Winsome Sears Rips Critical Race Theory: ‘Our Children Are Not Learning’ in School
Virginia’s new Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, a black woman and immigrant, knows first hand what it means to be a member of a minority group. Yet, she also understands the wrongness of teaching Critical Race Theory to our children.
“Let’s talk about what’s really happening,” Sears said Monday, on the heels of Youngkin’s weekend initiative. “Our children are not learning. We don’t have time to teach about oppression, that the child is a victim, that the White kids are the oppressors. We don’t have time in a school day for that.”
YouTube Labels John MacArthur’s Sermon Hate Speech After He Said God Made Us ‘Male and Female’
More “Big Tech” censorship. Now, speaking the biblical truth about human sexuality is “hate speech.” This is not the first such censorship and it will not be the last.
Standing in the pulpit on Sunday, MacArthur said, “There is no such thing as transgender. You are either XX or XY, that’s it. God made man male and female. That is determined genetically, that is physiology, that is science, that is reality.”
How Should Churches Respond to Cultural Hostility?
Some good advice on how churches and Christians should respond to an increasingly hostile culture.
Churches took one approach to relating to the culture when it was pro-Christian. It took a different approach when the culture became religiously neutral. But what approach should it take when the dominant culture is actively opposed to Christianity?
‘Domestic Terror Unit’ Is a Way to Punish Americans for Thought Crimes
This is a direct threat to our freedom!
Do you oppose certain COVID policies or hold a skeptical view of the 2020 election’s security but have no intent to respond violently or illegally? The DHS draws no line; to them, you may be a terrorist. Their language spreads beyond actions to include statements or beliefs that are inherently devoid of any call to action, violent or not. One could almost call it an indictment of “thought crime.”
Why the Cultural Moment Is a Crucial Aspect of Our Calling as Christians – BreakPoint
As our culture becomes more and more hostile to Christianity, we are called to stand firm on God’s Word and proclaim our faith in Christ.
The fact that we should see the challenges of this time and place as an essential and defining aspect of our calling, rather than an accidental context in which we live out our calling, is implied throughout Scripture. God reveals Himself to us as a God Who is concerned with and Who works through particular times and places. Even as He does so, He is providentially orchestrating a cosmic-sized plan of redemption and renewal.
Reconsidering Romans 13 – CultureWatch
In Romans 13, Paul writes about our obligation to the ruling governmental authorities. In this article, Bill Muehlenberg helps us understand what this means for us today.
And that is a key theme: the authority and scope of the state is limited indeed. It is limited by God, who is the one supreme authority. The authority that the state has is delegated authority. When the state does what God has authorised it to do, the believer should obey it. But when it does not, the believer need not obey – indeed, the believer at times may need to resist the state when this happens.
What Does It Mean to Trust God in Our Trials? | Tim Challies
We all face trials, suffering, loss, and heartache during our lives on earth. In this post, Tim Challies helps us understand the place of trials in our journey.
There are times during this long and wearying pilgrimage when we undergo severe tests of our faith—tests that are often related to our losses and bereavements. Even if we are never tempted to cast off all allegiance to Christ or to throw away all desire to follow in his ways, we may still be challenged to believe—or not believe—that what God says is true—true about life and death, true about earth and heaven, true about time and eternity. We may face the kind of challenge that calls us to live in one way if we believe and to live in another if we do not.
Some Additional Articles to Consider 4
Rooftop Revelations: On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pastor Brooks Rejects Three Critical Race Theory Lies
Religious Freedom Day: The Biden Administration Is Failing to Uphold Our First Freedom
The American Medical Association Falls to CRT
Fandom and the Great Books
Christian Persecution Expected to Increase in 2022 Across Several Countries, Report Finds
This week’s recommended book: Debunking The 1619 Project by Mary Graber
Please comment and let me know which of these articles was most beneficial to you.
May you have a blessed, productive, and peaceful week.
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