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Man who had previously been free and independent, is now so to speak subjugated by a multitude of new needs. Consuming ambition, the ardent desire to raise one's relative fortune less out of genuine need than in order to place oneself above others, instills in…

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man’s life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant…

“The Image: A Guide to Pseudo Events in America” By Daniel Boorstin  "[We have] used our wealth, our literacy, our technology, and our progress, to create the thicket of unreality which stands between us and the facts of life... We want to believe these illusions…

In the third chapter of The Presence of the Kingdom, Jacque Ellul analyzes the problem of communication. The problem, simply state, is that true human communication is absent. There is, in modern culture, two elements that prevent modern man from human communication: a lack of…

“I believe and testify that in the body of literature we call the Bible, continuously reinterpreted in the actual missionary experience of the church through the centuries and among the nations, there is a true rendering of the character and purpose of the Creator and…