What is an Elks Lodge / Elks Club?
The Elks Club (the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks or BPOE) is a civic group, and an Elks Lodge is the building where a local chapter meets. The information in the following three paragraphs is from the Elks Clubs’ official website, Elks.org: The Elks are • A fraternal order with nearly a million members…
What does the Bible say about the advice to “be yourself” and “you do you”?
“Be yourself,” and “You do you.” These are familiar pieces of advice offered today. But for many, the inclination to “be yourself” means choosing sinful expressions, doing whatever you want, and living without regard to the truth of Scripture because “this is who I am.” For the redeemed believer, the admonition to “be yourself” takes…
Should a Christian be involved with cosplay?
“Cosplay” (or cos-play) is short for “costume play.” It is the practice of dressing as a real or fictional character, typically from a video game, comic, TV show, movie, or even from history. Cosplayers often gather at science fiction, game, or anime/manga conventions, but they also like to attend Renaissance fairs and historical reenactments. Some…
What is a Rotary club?
A Rotary club is a group of local businessmen and professionals who form part of Rotary International, a community service organization founded in Chicago in 1905. Members of a Rotary club are called Rotarians. The purpose of a local Rotary club is to connect people who then work together to solve community problems, provide humanitarian…
How should Christians view the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)?
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) is a popular personality inventory first published in 1943 and based on Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types. The test was developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs, as a way to help people understand themselves and each other better. The MBTI tests for preferences in four…
What does the Bible say about entitlement culture?
Entitlement culture teaches that we deserve to have things given to us and that we should have special privileges. Those enmeshed in entitlement culture believe strongly that the whole world revolves around their perceived rights, needs, and wants. Its rallying cries are “my way,” “my rights,” and “I deserve.” Within American society certain rights are…
Who was Gandhi?
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 to a nondescript family in western India, but when he died in 1948 he was one of the greatest political leaders in human history. His influence and character were so strong that, by his mid-forties, he was already being referred to by the title “Mahatma,” meaning “great soul.”…
Who are the Shriners?
The Shriners organization is called the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, or A.A.O.N.M.S. It was established in New York City in 1870, and is an appendant body to Freemasonry. From its inception, the focus was on camaraderie, and Shriners use the phrase “Pleasure without intemperance, hospitality without rudeness and jollity…
What is a metanarrative?
A metanarrative (also called grand narrative) is an overarching story or storyline that gives context, meaning, and purpose to all of life. A metanarrative is the “big picture” or all-encompassing theme that unites all smaller themes and individual stories. In building a house, there are many workers doing many individual jobs—plumbing, sheet rock, electrical work,…
Why do so many Christians not have a consistently biblical worldview?
A biblical worldview is one’s total conception of the world from a biblical standpoint. It’s a Christian’s basic belief system about the meaning of life, the nature of God, the source of truth, and other foundational concepts. Yet many Christians’ worldview is not biblically consistent. They may approach some issues from a biblical viewpoint, but…