Resources by Topic: Culture and Worldview

Telling the truth is no longer normal. In America, a man can lie about his past, violate his marriage vows, make promises he has no intention of keeping, and break those promises without a shred of guilt. Indeed, he can deny he actually made them in the first place, or make you feel like he is breaking them as a matter of principle. And such a man can be more than just some cheap sleazy crook. He can be president of the United States.

Years ago I was given an amazing opportunity to address three thousand people, most of them high school students, on the subject of abortion. 

The first time 7-year-old Emily Bausch met Norma McCorvey, she had no idea she had come face to face with an icon of the pro-abortion movement—”Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade. 

Since the Constitution of the United States says nothing about this subject, it is left to be resolved by normal democratic means, including the democratic adoption of provisions in state constitutions.

Abortion liberates men, not women. There are three reasons for this.

The question is not whether believers ever need counseling or should seek it, but the assumptions and nature of that counseling. Many evangelicals routinely embrace psychological beliefs and counseling practices that warrant much closer biblical scrutiny.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. 

Today, November 10, 1994, the outcome has been declared official. The state of Oregon became the first jurisdiction in the history of the human race to legalize physician-assisted suicide.

The following are notes and overhead transparencies developed by Randy Alcorn and used in his Contemporary Social Ethics class.

This article was written before Ballot Measure 16 passed in Oregon in 1995.

This is the course syllabus for Contemporary Social Ethics. 

Character is what you are in the dark, when no one but God is looking.

I used this article in a course I taught at Multnomah Bible College—Soc 111, Contemporary Social Ethics.

We confess that we are sometimes weary of living in a world where right is called wrong and wrong is called right.