“I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.” These final words in the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley resonate with most people in the modern west. It is about the triumph of raw willpower in the face of uncontrollable life circumstances. Ironically, Henley died. He was 53. Mankind’s
Today’s moral climate is dominated by the notion of total self-determination. This is not a Christian concept. It may be Walt Whitman’s or Henry David Thoreau’s, but it is certainly not the “road less traveled” and that makes “all the difference.” In this façade of reality, each person becomes their own god, their own standard
Abortion thrives in America because of a cultural worldview that rejects God’s loving authority for man’s capricious rule. When we lose our sense of purpose rooted in God, then as a society we lose a shared standard of right and wrong and no longer know how we ought to treat each other. Good and evil
