About Nancy Pearcey: Nancy Randolph Pearcey is an American evangelical author on the Christian worldview.
In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our guilty pleasures and selfish ambitions. But in reality, it means dying inwardly to whatever has control over us. The thing that really controls u...
All of science is largely formalized common sense.
Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don’t know the characters and can’t make sense of the plot.
What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?" Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.
When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.
Author conveys contemporary respect for Methodist preachers who rode the circuit of frontier settlements to put themselves at risk for the Gospel near the Second Great Awakening. They were dubbed 'God's light artillery'.
Christianity is the key that fits the lock of the universe.
The sword of the Spirit has been muffled up and decked out with flowers and ribbons," author writes, conveying the sentiments of a Congregationist minister on men's ceding of moral and religious instruction and correction as women's work.
Redemption is as comprehensive as creation or fall.
Artists are often the barometers of society.
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
