by Glenn Sunshine | Dec 12, 2023 | Breakpoint, Culture & Society, Worldview
The despicable and horrendous attacks by Hamas against civilians last week, including beheading children and kidnapping the elderly, seems a throwback to some distant, barbaric past of human history. We may have thought the world had long ago outgrown such barbarity,...
by Glenn Sunshine | Dec 12, 2023 | Bible & Theology, Breakpoint, History
The month of November marks the death of John Witherspoon, one of the most important and most underrated of the American founding fathers. Born in Scotland in 1723, Witherspoon received a Master of Arts at age 16 from the University of Edinburgh, where he would...
by Glenn Sunshine | Dec 12, 2023 | Breakpoint, Culture & Society, History
Revisionist attempts to reinterpret the first Thanksgiving have muddled the history of Plymouth Colony and the Pilgrims. Some on the right call the historical events a “triumph of capitalism,” getting the chronology of events wrong. Voices on the left often accuse...
by Glenn Sunshine | Dec 12, 2023 | Breakpoint, Culture & Society, History
November marks the death of Johannes Kepler, one of the most important figures of the Scientific Revolution and a scientist who was motivated by his Christian beliefs. The significance of Kepler’s work can only be understood in light of what he faced and risked. The...
by Glenn Sunshine | Dec 12, 2023 | Breakpoint, Church History
From the earliest days of the Church, Christian theologians have marveled at the paradoxes found in the incarnation. Among the earliest expressions of this marveling comes from St. Augustine, the most influential theologian in Western Christianity. Augustine was born...
