Kameel Majdali's Road Ahead

Progressivism (P) Vs. Conservatism (C) When you understand a problem, you are halfway towards a solution! As we have learned, there are two sides of the on-going, half-century old ‘culture war:’ The left-leaning secular progressives (sometimes called ‘liberals’), versus the right-leaning traditional values conservative (also known as ‘social conservatives’). The secular progressives dominate our political parties, mainstream media, academia, big business, some parts of the judiciary, and the entertainment industry. Many mainstream people and some cultural leaders subscribe, at least in part, to the traditional values side. This handy guide will help distinguish between progressives (P) and conservatives (C). 1. Worldview P: Concerned with economic material side of man; C: Concerned with the entire person, including moral & spiritual. 2. Identity P: Identity Politics; C: Character (Martin Luther King Jr., in his epic 1963 speech, I Have A...

One respected conservative scholar called the ‘strangest book in the Bible.’ It speaks in terms that are high and low, mostly the latter. Written by an older man who ‘had it all,’ made some bad moves, and now speaks as one who is in the depths of depression. It’s famous phrase is vanity of vanities, all is vanity? Is this really the case? Vanity : def. futile, lost, a waste of time, worthless The book in question is called Ecclesiastes and it is part of the Bible’s wisdom literature. Perhaps the best way to understand this book is to remember that it is describing life ‘ under the sun ,’ a phrase used 27 times and apparently no where else in Scripture. Life ‘ under the sun ’ is talking about natural, carnal living in a fallen world; this is the antithesis of a born-again, fruit-bearing, Spirit-filled life. If a person’s perspective is 100% under the sun , in the natural, valuing the things of the world, and not living though to the Almighty, the transcendent, then our ...