by Every Square Inch Ministries | Feb 2, 2024 | Culture, Miscellaneous, Worship
In the fitness world today, yoga is big business. Classes are popping up all over, and some are even marketed as “Christian yoga.” But at the same time, there has been opposition to the way yoga is being sold. Some Hindus argue that yoga is intrinsically religious and...
by Every Square Inch Ministries | Jan 23, 2024 | Breakpoint
Ideas tend to sprout up in academia, but the ones that matter do not stay there. Even when birthed in seemingly abstract fields like epistemology (the study of knowledge), ideas can have a major impact on culture. This is especially evident in the modern to postmodern...
by Every Square Inch Ministries | Jan 19, 2024 | Breakpoint
Seven hundred years ago, Italian scholar Marsilius of Padua helped lay the foundation for our modern ideas of popular sovereignty. In his book Defensor Pacis, written in the context of an ongoing battle in Church-state relations, he anticipated the idea of separate...
by Every Square Inch Ministries | Jan 9, 2024 | Breakpoint
Seventeen hundred years ago this year, Constantine defeated his co-emperor Licinius, ending a series of civil wars and consolidating power as sole emperor of Rome. At the time, Christians saw this as the defeat of old pagan ways and the triumph of a new Christian...
by Every Square Inch Ministries | Jan 1, 2024 | Breakpoint
This Breakpoint was originally published on February 21, 2023. ___ Two weeks ago, what started as a routine (and, according to the preacher, “lackluster”) chapel service at Asbury University became something remarkable. Instead of heading off to classes, students...