by Israel Wayne | Oct 3, 2015 | Articles
I once served as an admin for a Facebook group with over 30,000 professing Christians. When we reviewed requests to join the group, it was often disheartening to see the number of profiles that contain lewd pictures, crass jokes, and straight-up profanity on their...
by Israel Wayne | Sep 1, 2015 | Articles
A while back, I spoke at an event for homeschooled graduates and asked the audience to respond to the question, “Do you believe that the 66 books of the Bible are, in the original manuscripts, the inspired and inerrant word of God?” 98% of the attendees at this...
by Israel Wayne | Aug 10, 2015 | Articles
In much of Western Culture, there is a belief that if something is legal, it must be morally acceptable. Why do people think this way? In a previous post, I talked about how Friedrich Nietzsche shifted our cultural vocabulary away from speaking about morals (which are...
by Israel Wayne | Jul 24, 2015 | Articles
Whenever something terrible happens on the news, like the murder of innocent people, atheists often rage and say, “This proves that God does not exist, because if God is good and all-powerful, then He would stop all of the evil in the world.” The truth,...
by Israel Wayne | Jul 7, 2015 | Articles
Who are the most influential Evangelicals in America? TIME Magazine took a guess at The Top 25 Evangelicals a few years back, but I think things have shifted just a tad since then. I made one of these lists four years ago, and you’ll notice some changes. ...
by Israel Wayne | Jul 6, 2015 | Articles
There is a popular belief among many people (including Christians) that all sins are equal to God and, therefore, should be viewed as equal to all of us as well. I often hear people say that, if you have any sin in your own life, you shouldn’t speak against sin...
by Israel Wayne | Jul 4, 2015 | Articles
In his Two Treatises on Government in 1698, John Locke properly recognized and explained that the main goal of government was to protect the “life, liberty and property” of the citizens. Locke said: “The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into...
by Israel Wayne | Jun 30, 2015 | Articles
I have been hearing a lot lately, “We shouldn’t expect non-Christians to live like Christians. They don’t know God, so they sin. That’s what sinners do. Stop expecting them to be moral.” Or even, “God’s laws apply to...
by Israel Wayne | Jun 1, 2015 | Articles
Perhaps the greatest education historian of the past 100 years has died at the age of 89. Samuel Blumenfeld was an educator, author and speaker, who has helped thousands of people to understand the roots and true goals of government education. Sam’s writing has...
by Israel Wayne | Apr 2, 2015 | Interviews
As a homeschooled graduate who began homeschooling in the late 1970s and 1980s, I have a desire to introduce current homeschoolers to their history. Chris Davis was one of the pioneers of the modern-day homeschooling movement. He was the founder of The Elijah Company,...