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Saturday Selections – May 16, 2026

Athanasius vs. Arius, the rap battle Athanasius offers up a hard-rocking right.... "I've never seen a problem so solvable!" – parents hold the key to their kids' literacy Between a fifth and a third of Canadian adults struggle with basic literacy – the reading level that allows you to fill out a job application. So what's to be done? The head of Indigo Canada wants parents to keep their kids away from screens. Making the case for a 6-day creation to seminary students Creation Ministry International – the folks behind Creation.com, one of the world's top creationist websites – is crafting a video course specifically intended for seminary students. They want to reach the next generation of pastors to challenge and encourage them to trust God's Word from the very first chapter of the Bible. Why do 60% of US youth say they prefer socialism? ...because they've forgotten the lessons learned from the past. And because the Church isn't teaching them the same lessons from God's Word. Ben Sasse shows us the difference between dying with dignity and “death with dignity” Ben Sasse is dying publicly, to the glory of our God, using the little time he has left to speak of the comfort he has in his Redeemer. And as James Wood put it:

"In a culture that kills to avoid hardship and hides death to avoid reckoning, a man dying well on high-profile platforms is a subtly radical act. He is, without quite saying so, making an argument for life – for its dignity, its giftedness, its meaning even at the last."

Do we have it worse than our parents and grandparents? John Stossel notes that in the 1950s homes were smaller, cars were a lot less nice, and we didn't live nearly as long. It is important for Christians to be able to count our blessings – one of the sins of Israel was forgetting how God had blessed them (Ps. 106:7,13,21-22) – and it is one of the tricks of the Devil to have us be ungrateful. Being grateful doesn't mean we have to view the present with rose-colored glasses and go all Pollyanna on today's problems. Inflation has made food more expensive. Homes are more expensive than they were 10 years ago. But let's not let ingratitude blind us to how God continues to provide for us and our church communities too.