NOTE:  I have invited the contributions of Stu Reimer to write in this space on the issues of marriage and family. If you follow CRC at all you will know Stu to be my frequent substitute in the pulpit and I am looking forward to his work as my substitute from time to time in this space. Expect his blogs to appear every 6 weeks or so. Stu is no expert on the things on which I have asked him to write (Just ask his wife and children), but he is a committed reformed Christian and

I mentioned in an earlier blog that I spent some time this summer with Canada’s finest philosopher Charles Taylor. To be fair, he was nowhere to be found, but his massive tome, A Secular Age, was in my hands a lot over the warmer months of the year. I also mentioned in the previous blog that ‘Scripture alone should be the sole influencer of our social imaginary’ or something like that. I then said I would provide more information on this in a future blog… this is that blog. T

C. S. Lewis once quipped, “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it but because by it, I see everything else.” It’s typical wit from Lewis but within this short repartee a very important truth emerges. It is one thing to believe that the sun has risen; it is a completely different thing to live by the light that it gives. The specific point Lewis was making in his article, “Is Theology Poetry?”, was that we know the truth of Chr