Here’s an article I wrote for Faith For All Of Life in 2016, about the lamentable state of the Young Adult fiction market. These people are amazingly candid about what they hope to do to their audience.
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/sowing-bad-seedl
Could we, like, please stop letting them do it?
R.J. Rushdoony’s ministry, which he has passed on to us at Chalcedon–and to all who wish to take it up–centered on the extension of Christ’s Kingdom: and in this, every Christian can take part. It’s work for all of us.
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/christ-versus-satan
I think he saved the best quote for last: “Every Christian and his home is a part of this extension of Christ’s Kingdom.”
(“From the President,” Faith For All of Life, March 31, 2018: by Mark Rushdoony)
In Jesus, the Deepening River and the Blinding Light, Mark Rushdoony follows Our Lord to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles in John Chapters 7 and 8, and ties Jesus’ words and actions to prophecies by Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Zechariah. Really, there was no excuse for misunderstanding His claim to be the Christ.
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/jesus-the-deepening-river-and-the-blinding-light
I found this an illuminating essay, even as I helped edit it. There are Christians who don’t pay much attention to the Old Testament; but in so doing, they miss much of the meaning of the New Testament.
Please visit our recently (and very extensively!) revamped website, http://www.chalcedon.edu/, and spend a few minutes browsing. Theology, history, sermons, Q&A sessions, homeschooling, commentary, book and movie reviews–we’ve got it all.
In this Chalcedon book review from last year, I examined Professor F.H. Buckley’s totally secular solutions to America’s problems (https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/the-way-back-restoring-the-promise-of-america-by-f-h-buckley), The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America.
As Bayard Rustin once said, there are a lot of stupid smart people.
Anyway, click the link and check it out. And please visit The Chalcedon Foundation’s new expanded website, http://www.chalcedon.edu/ .
Here’s another goody from the archive at Chalcedon’s shiny new website: my review of Expelled: The Movie, from 2008 when it first came out. A lot of you have mentioned it in passing, and have probably seen it. If you haven’t, track it down and enjoy it.
https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/a-review-of-expelled-the-movie
There’s a lot of stuff on http://www.chalcedon.edu/ that I didn’t write, and please don’t think I’m using this as an opportunity to show off. It’s going to take me time to learn my way around the site, and for re-posting here, I find it easiest to go to articles that I remember writing. In time I’ll branch out from there.
Meanwhile, I’m just doing what I can to help the new site find an audience, at least among my own blog audience. When you visit Chalcedon, I hope you’ll become acquainted with our other writers–and speakers, too: lots of video and audio available. Please feel free to dig in!
Chalcedon published this review last year. In retrospect, I think Heaven Breaks In, by Nicholas Cappas, is one of the oddest books I’ve ever read.
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/heaven-breaks-in-by-nicholas-cappas
I mean, the college setting of this book is so far out, it’s just about extraterrestrial.
We want to regain cultural ground for Christ’s Kingdom, we want to win it back–and that means our “Christian fiction” has to be at least as good, and preferably better than, as the stuff cooked up by secular writers. The label “Christian” should not be used as an excuse for inferior quality!
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As I learn to find my way around Chalcedon’s new website (www.chalcedon.edu/resources), I’ll try to get readers to follow me there. This blog is the child of Chalcedon, and I hope the kid has grown enough to help Ma and Dad around the house.
For those of you who are more tech-savvy than I am (that would be just about everybody), the new Chalcedon site is a treasure trove–videos, podcasts, chapel services (also posted on Facebook), interviews, Q&A sessions. I hope you have time to sample its wares. And let me know, if you have something you’d like me to pass on to the management.
Here at the Chalcedon Foundation, we’re in the process of going digital. That means all our stuff, going back to the beginning, will be available on our website, http://www.chalcedon.edu/ . It’ll all be there, and we need people to visit the site and use its many resources.
My recent review of Greg Koukl’s book, The Story of Reality–an excellent book, by the way–is there, with lots and lots of company. Let me post a link to it.
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/the-story-of-reality-by-greg-koukl
Our ministry’s greatest need is, as it has always been, to communicate our message. In the past, we’ve tried to do it by mail. But now we have moved on, technologically, and we cry out for website visitors. Come on down! I mean, I can’t even begin to describe what all we’ve got there. Everything we’ve ever published! And it’s all for free.
As a merely selfish consideration, I want to show my employers and the other folks at Chalcedon that this little blog can help attract visitors to the Chalcedon website–which in turn will help keep the blog going. I pray some of you will become regular visitors to the site and avail yourselves of its plethora of resources.
So come on down!
Dr. Punyamurtula Kishore
If you’re interested in the ever-worsening problem of opioid addiction in America, which President Trump mentioned in his State of the Union speech, and would like to read a deep and thorough treatment of the subject, visit the Chalcedon website, http://www.chalcedon.edu .
Our print magazine, Faith For All Of Life, published a series of 18 articles by our vice-president, Martin Selbrede, on the life and work of Dr. Punyamutula Kishore, whose clinics boasted a success rate of 50 to 60 percent in treating drug addicts–until the state of Massachusetts shut him down, closed his clinics, and sent him to prison. Dr. Kishore is out now, and resuming his work in other states where the government is more receptive: but he has an awful lot of wreckage to clean up.
It’s easy to access Martin’s articles (edited by Susan and me). Just go to Chalcedon’s site, click “Resources,” and search for “Dr. Kishore”–so simple, even I can do it.
Why was Dr. Kishore persecuted? His success rate of 50 to 60 percent rather embarrassed the government-endorsed programs, where the success rate seldom reaches as high as 5 percent. His was a sobriety-based treatment, instead of substituting one addictive drug for another. Martin’s articles tell the whole story. Meanwhile, a feature film has been made about Dr. Kishore and should soon be ready for release.
It’s too big a story for me to sum up here: so if you’re interested, read the articles. I think you’ll be amazed by what you read.