Forty years ago today, September 3, 1983, my mother, Della Mildred Hendrickson Caneday, passed away. At the time, I was living in […]
Understanding the Times 4.0—A Christian Cultural Critic in Action
More than a decade before I joined the faculty at Northwestern College in 1992, injudicious Supreme Court decisions gave established legal precedent […]
Understanding the Times 3.1—The Formation of a Christian Cultural Critic
My last blog entry offers a brief historical review of factors that shaped my early thinking concerning social-cultural-political issues. Here, I continue […]
Understanding the Times 3.0—The Formation of a Christian Cultural Critic
The first entry in this series—Understanding the Times—featured Herbert Schlossberg and his uncommon book, Idols for Destruction (1983). With his book, Schlossberg […]
Understanding the Times 2.0—An Invisible, Electrified Ideological Wall
The Berlin Wall Falls November 9, 1989, is a memorable date. That day, the Berlin Wall, a barrier that separated people for […]
Understanding the Times 1.0—Herbert Schlossberg: A Prophetic Voice Unheeded
Do you recognize the prophetic nature of what Herbert Schlossberg portrays with the quotes I have cited? When I read Idols for Destruction, I did not realize how prophetic his voice was. When I cited him a decade later in a presentation, I failed to recognize his prophetic voice. Furthermore, I did not understand that my citation of Schlossberg’s book in my presentation bore something of a prophetic role to those who heard me. I should have realized it because I received a prophet’s welcome.
Correcting Gnostic Incursions into Christian Funerals
Many years ago, when I was pastoring, I began to observe that a variety of factors conspired together to shift the focus […]
The Stigma Mary Endured as the Mother of Our Lord
Gabriel’s Message that Permanently Altered Mary’s Young Life The angel Gabriel suddenly appeared to Mary, saying, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with […]
A Lament Concerning Divine Mystery
I often write personal psalms in the form of those found in the Psalter. I post this one as I think of and pray for a friend who is now enduring a time of difficulty and pain in God’s providence.