The Trinitarian Father: Ten Years Later

There are many errors in the evangelical strategy book, but among them is that we have offered an unnamed and unarmed God to fight our culture and political wars.

Note: This year marks the tenth anniversary of my first published work, The Trinitarian Father. The work was a small fruit of some fatherly reflections. As we approach Father’s Day, I have rewritten the introduction. Seeing how much my writing has changed since then and hopefully matured is remarkable. As with a few of my earlier works, I intend to offer some revised versions in the years to come and use these Friday platforms for this purpose. The subscribers will have access to entire manuscripts when they are ready to hit the press. Thanks again for your contributions!

Introduction

It is not enough to ride around with our “God bless America” stickers because the “God” of Americans is becoming less and less the God of the Bible. You do not have to peruse too long to see this reality in the modern evangelical scene. We are now threatened by an aggressive atheism in our society. I say aggressive because modern atheists no longer hide behind suits in small secular universities. Now, they are the superstars of academic institutions. They are tenured experts in LGBTQ+ studies and woke apologetics.

Students enter their fold eager to embrace them as sexual and sociological gurus. But Christians are usually marginalized in their classes.¹ They are reviled as fundamentalists when they speak out, or they may choose the journey of silence to reach their goal. While local colleges may afford some greater flexibility, it is evident that the odds in most higher learning institutions are against historic Christianity and its ethical foundation.