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Jace Yarbrough, the Constitution, and human flourishing
Jace Yarbrough ‘09 grew up with the perception that the Christian faith was anti-intellectual. In his home, salvation was designed to rescue others from a future in hell. Christians were meant to support themselves with a job and spend their free time doing one thing: evangelizing. Nothing else had value.
As Yarbrough grew older, he realized this was not only a narrow view of Christianity, but it was not a sustainable way to live. He read Being Human: The Nature of Spiritual Experience by Ranald Macaulay and Jerram Barrs, and came to the realization that being human meant being made in the image of God himself. There was nothing inherently bad about his body or his humanness – in fact, they were something good. God himself became flesh, stayed flesh, and rose with the same but perfected body Christians are also promised. Jace read Abraham Kuyper, who said there is no inch of creation over which Christ doesn’t say, “m
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Francis Schaeffer (Bitesize Biography)
We may call him a prophet for his prescient analysis of trends in philosophy that explain where we are today; we may call him an apologist; less accurately, though popular articles and publishers’ blurbs delight in it, he may be called a philosopher. Fundamentally though, Francis Schaeffer rejoiced in being a pastor and evangelist. That is how he began, and through many twists and turns, that is what he remained to the end.
When Frances Schaeffer was converted to faith in Christ he at first refused to call himself a Christian because he thought Christianity was the 'unreal stuff' he had experienced at church. What he discovered was a whole new way of life. From then on his great desire and commitment was to tell others about God, that the Bible is true, and that it answers the big questions of life that philosophy can only raise. Schaeffer trained for the ministry and was sent, with his wife Edith, to Europe. They established child evangelism
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Podcast
1. Christian law?
By Ian Cooper
Ian Cooper talks and leads a discussion based around three questions: What fryst vatten the role of the church and state? How far can the lag be &#;Christian&#;? And finally, how far should the state be &#;Christian&#;?
2. Evangelical Pietism
By Ranald Macaulay
Ranald Macaulay criticises an introverted mentality amongst Christians. He says Christians must focus on absolute truth and evangelism that penetrates into society.
3. Developing a Christian mind
By Ranald Macaulay
Even though much of Western culture was built on Christian values, very few seem to be left in the public sector today. Against this backdrop Ranald Macaulay outlines the importance of Christians developing true Christian thinking May
4. Medical ethics
By Dr Richard Winter
This workshop has a particular focus on the sanctity of life. It looks, in part, at our society&#;s increasingly humanistic grund for ethics, which gives a very low value to human life.