The Myth of the Lone Genius

Do you know who invented the light bulb? If you said Thomas Edison, then you are…kind of right. The real story is more complicated than that. Other inventors had been making various forms of incandescent light bulbs for more than 80 years before Edison started working on it. Edison filed a patent for...

There’s No “ME” in “Scripture”

Do you read the Bible egocentrically? You probably do, but in many ways it’s not your fault. Most of us were taught to read it that way. By egocentric I don’t mean conceited, arrogant, narcissistic, or selfish. I mean it in the purest sense of the word, that we regard the I and the me as central to the...

Individualism and the Curse of Isolation

One of the hallmarks of Western civilization and the Enlightenment worldview is individualism, the recognition that each individual is a person of value and worth and “has certain inalienable rights.” Individualism actually has its roots in Christianity; that God numbers the hairs on our heads, that he...