Archive for the ‘Family’ Category

March 7, 2010 5

Frank Schaeffer and Christian Freedom

By Joel Veldkamp in Books, Conservatism, Family, Motivation

Francis Schaeffer is one of the giants of 20th century evangelicalism.  He founded the L’Abri Fellowship and helped to forge the alliance between American Christianity and political conservatism.
Frank Schaeffer, his son, is another story.
Frank began his career working for his father, but lived to turn on the movement Francis had created.  He converted to Greek [...]

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October 1, 2009 0

Familiolatry

By Robert Minto in Family, Idols, Politics

The following was written as an editorial for the Dordt student newspaper.
Among the idols we love to smash are pleasure, power, and reason. Among the idols we love to smash in others more than ourselves are self-righteousness and wealth. Among the idols we mostly fail to smash (or see for that [...]

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