I recently tweeted a line inspired by a sermon I was listening to at church: ?Unity without robust diversity is just uniformity.? Elton Trueblood, a philosopher and spiritual writer from the last century, had this to say on the subject: ?There is a conceivable kind of unity which is based on the meager uniformity of […]
Those Who Bring the Knowledge of God
I recently had the privilege of traveling with my family to the Hawaiian island of Kauai.? What a joy it was to introduce our three-year-old new places of God?s beauty, new people made in the image of God, and new wonders of His creation.? This idea of the?new?stood out to me during our stay.? As […]
Knowledge as Idol
Over last weekend, I wrote a post on my personal blog titled ?Knowledge as Idol.? I want to say a little more about that here on the Institute blog. (You may want to read that post here first). Here?s a rather simple and alarming line from Elton Trueblood about knowledge: ?Sin, from the first, instead […]
