The Writer and the Christian

Brian Godawa is a Christian writer/director working in Hollywood. He wrote the award-winning independent film To End All Wars, which starred Robert Carlyle and Kieffer Sutherland, and adapted Frank Peretti’s The Visitation for the big screen. He’s directed documentaries on American history for PBS and the History Channel. Recently he directed a short horror film […]

Modern liberalism is essentially secularism in thinly veiled religious garb, and its salvation is a distinctly secular, though largely pagan, program. Alternateively, in much of Africa and Latin America salvation is depicted in terms of a violent socialist revolution (”liberation theology”) designed to overturn the imperialism and capitalism (real or imagined) of society. Salvation is […]

A good friend of mine who happens to be an atheist has started a series of notes on Facebook entitled “My Atheism”. He just posted this picture with one of his notes, and I thought it deserved a counterpart.

So I made one myself in response (it’s pretty gruesome, but that’s the point):

This, of course, is […]

The desire to discover Jesus’ wife is actually a normal state of mind. The question comes quickly. If in Genesis it says that mankind’s normal situation was to leave mom and dad to cleave with a marriage partner and become one flesh, then why did not the epitome of human life, Christ, not get married? […]

Leithart suggests in Deep Comedy that because the ancient world viewed all theology and metaphysics as inherently tragic and degenerative, tragedy became a kind of glory for them. “European antiquity . . . was characterized by an ethos of ‘glorious sadness.’” (p. 45)
This was an interesting suggestion not partially because it suggests that through heroic […]

Been reading Peter Leithart’s Deep Comedy: Trinity, Tragedy, and Hope in Western Literature, for which much rejoicing. The book is absolutely fantastic, and it blew my mind in a number of passages. His suggestion that the statue in Daniel 7 which moves from gold to silver to bronze to iron to iron and clay is […]

Right now there is a large struggle taking place in the PCA over two separate movements. The first is known as the Federal Vision, and a statement signed by all the major folks of the Federal Vision can be found here. This statement defines the movement of the Federal Vision. All points of controversy outside […]

Here in Ohio, we have a Christian radio station called K-LOVE, and their motto is that they are “Positive and Encouraging, K-LOVE.” Now, this station used to be an actual Christian radio station–until K-LOVE bought them out. This older station played the programs of Larry Burkett, Randal Terry, James Dobson, and others. Sundays they played […]

Yahweh, commander of the hosts of heaven,
come , attend, arise and judge us, O God!
You are God, you speak and all things
bow, cast their crowns at the feet of Jesus,
lift up your people,
defend them from that ancient dragon,
the serpent who has invaded your garden,
disguised and speaking lies as
the father of lies.
Work your will among us […]

Look for a new multi-part post explaining the basics of the Christian Faith, historically understood. My college newspaper recently published an opinion piece titled “What’s With Wicca?” by one of the wiccans on campus explaining the Wiccan religion for halloween. I am at work writing an op-ed piece explaining the tenets of historical Christianity as […]