Crosswalk.com en-us Thursday, August 07, 2008 Thursday, August 07, 2008 rss.aspx support@crosswalk.com support@crosswalk.com http://media.salemwebnetwork.com/crosswalkredesign/images/display/crosswalk_logo_blue_tiny.gif http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/jwhite/archives/ http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/JWhite/11580222/ “Solzhenitsyn, Literary giant Who Defied Soviets, Dies at 89,” ran the headline on the front page of the New York Times, which was then followed by two more full pages in its “A” section. And deservedly so. His work “gained the force of prophecy” as he wrote “some of the most powerful literary works of the 20th century” chronicling the “heavy afflictions” of Soviet Communism. “In almost half a century, more than 30 million of his books have been sold worldwide and translated into some 40 languages.” In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The next day? A very different article. “Reverence for Solzhenitsyn, but No National Mourning.” Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:06:00 GMT 11580222 Dr. James Emery White http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/JWhite/11579319/ I have long told my students that the doctrine of humanity is, by far, the most pressing doctrine of our day, for it is the area of Christian thought that is most challenged by the world in which we live, and the nature of those challenges tend to leave most Christians bereft of any sense of knowing how to respond. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:52:00 GMT 11579319 Dr. James Emery White http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/JWhite/11578573/ When America’s second president, John Adams, and America’s third president, Thomas Jefferson, both died on the same day in 1826 – and that day was none other than the Fourth of July – it was seen as a sign of God’s favor on the United States. As historian David McCullough notes in his widely-acclaimed biography of Adams, it “could not be seen as mere coincidence.” It was a ‘visible and palpable’ manifestation of ‘Divine favor,’ wrote John Quincy in his diary that night, “expressing,” McCullough adds, “what was felt and would be said again and again everywhere the news spread.” Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:39:00 GMT 11578573 Dr. James Emery White http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/JWhite/11577514/ Each year around this time, through the Update, I offer ten titles - in no particular order – from the previous twelve months for your summer reading consideration, usually with an emphasis on cultural understanding. Enjoy. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:18:00 GMT 11577514 Dr. James Emery White http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/JWhite/11576504/ One of the more disturbing films of late is Deliver Us from Evil, a 2006 documentary on pedophile priest Oliver O’Grady who was moved from parish to parish in Northern California during the 1970’s. Church hierarchy, with knowledge of his attraction to children and evidence of actual misconduct, harbored him for thirty years, allowing him to abuse countless numbers of children. Even more gripping than the interviews of some of the abused children, now adults, is the extended interview with O’Grady himself as he chillingly recounts his predatory past. Thu, 29 May 2008 06:52:00 GMT 11576504 Dr. James Emery White