We are proud to have Worldview Academy’s Bill Jack to be our speaker. Come join us as we listen to Bill Jack speak on worldview topics over two sessions.

Headlights revealed–too late–an unhitched 22-foot trailer stretched across two lanes of 57 Freeway. Matt’s swerve didn’t clear the trailer, and it came crashing down on the car, crushing his face and arm. A witness called 911. “No one’s moving in the car,” he said. “Get here soon. This is horrible.” Thirty critical minutes ticked by as rescue workers cut through the mangled metal to pull Matt and Tim out of the wreckage. When they did, Matt wasn’t breathing…

A while back on BreakPoint, I talked about a teenager who attended a worldview training camp run by Summit Ministries. The young man complained, tongue in cheek, that worldview training had “ruined” movie watching for him. He could not longer watch films without automatically searching for the worldview messages…

I had a chance to read some of the blog comments discussing the Manhattan Declaration exclusion. I was quite frustrated at some of the invalid accusations, illogical arguments, and how many often spoke out of emotion rather than fact. But I was also quite delighted to find commentors who used sound logic to refute some of the critical bashing directed towards Christians and those in defense of the Manhattan Declaration. Not all of these are done with tact and could be written better, but it does give us a sense of confidence that sound logic is always more persuasive and compelling…

Near the end of last year, Apple pulled an app called the Manhattan Declaration from the iTunes store after 7,000 signature was gathered saying the content was anti-gay and hate-mongering. The Manhattan Declaration is a 4000+ word statement of beliefs signed by 400,000+ people calling people to a Christian conscience.

Some debate ensued whether corporations should be allowed to deny such apps and whether or not the Manhattan Declaration was legitimate freedom of expression or whether it was hate.

Read about it here and give us your thoughts!

The book, titled The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism describes the kinds of questions newcomers—mostly highly-educated twenty-somethings—fire at Keller:

Why would a good God allow suffering?
Hasn’t science disproved Christianity?
Why would a loving God send people to hell?
And isn’t it arrogant for Christians to claim that their faith is the only route to God?”…

Ironically, one of the reasons the New Atheists have lashed out so aggressively is because atheism is losing the rational higher ground. In the 1960s it may have seemed acceptable to argue that religious faith is blind. The cover of a 1966 Time magazine story captured the prevailing attitude of the time: “Is God Dead?” Yet, as philosopher William Lane Craig has observed in a cover story for Christianity Today, news of God’s death was premature. In fact, says Craig, “atheism, though perhaps still the dominant viewpoint at the American university, is a philosophy in retreat.”[iii] This trend was powerfully portrayed by the recent conversion of Antony Flew, one of the most influential atheists over the past five decades. In his book Why There Is A God, Flew cites the burgeoning scientific evidence for a divine intelligence as the prime reason for his change of mind.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen! This is the southbound train to San Jose, and this is the Davis stop. We have a packed train today, so please find a seat as soon as possible.
Yes—it sure was crowded indeed, and with three bags and not enough hands, as well as three boys whom I had to keep an eye on, it was a nightmare trying to find seats last Friday on the Amtrak train.
Finally, we found seats at the end of the train and I found myself facing a pleasant …

Check out this great article by Chuck Colson on worldview and how it even affects the way we watch movies.
I highly encourage you to check our take this summer to participate in some kind of worldview training, if you have not done so already!

By Jane Cho, InterHigh Mentor, Senior @ UC Berkeley
If you’re like me when I was a teen, you have dreams of hang-gliding in the Grand Canyon or becoming a successful lawyer/musician/whatever. You probably have a list of things you really want to accomplish before you “kick the bucket” and die. But when my pastor pointed out how self-focused a lot of these bucket lists are, especially when this dying world needs salvation, I realized that my ultimate wish list was really selfish.  
In the video below, Francis Chan, pastor of Cornerstone …

By Elaine Chen, InterHigh Mentor, Senior @ UC Berkeley
Does separation from your cell phone bring you great anxiety? Does studying ever end up becoming a time of “see how many things I can look up on Wikipedia”? Or has your hearing been severely impaired because of the amount of music you’re blaring into your ears every spare moment in the day? I can relate.
Reading this article reminded me of the downward spiral we’re all heading in with the advent of newer and faster technology. Our world is more and more …

By Annie Strother, InterHigh Mentor, Senior @ UC Berkeley
I just got back from a mission trip to Tecate, Mexico and it was amazing.  We got to go to a church with many people who were recovered drug-addicts, and it was incredible to hear the passion in their voices as they sang praise songs.  We also got to eat a lot of delicious authentic Mexican food which has left me utterly spoiled; I think it will be a long time before I can eat La Piñata again.  But one of the …

By Ellen Yu, InterHigh Mentor, Senior @ UC Berkeley
Finals is the time when the concepts you didn’t quite master (or learn) the first time around catch up with you. The vast amounts of information that you must absorb, sometimes quite literally by noon tomorrow, can cause much anxiety and impair sight of the eternal perspective.
During this past finals season, I experienced the anxieties of reviewing and learning what seemed to be a hopeless amount of material. And yes, my sight of the eternal was also impaired. However, in the midst …

By Jenny Zhao, InterHigh Mentor, Junior @ UC Berkeley
Riding off of Dan’s recent article, I wanted to pose the question of: what does it look like to honor God with your clothing? Like Dan mentioned, I think we have to think critically about what the things on our clothing says, but for girls, another aspect is that of dressing modestly. I have many peers that have been convicted in this aspect of our Christian lives because they realized they needed to honor the people around them through dressing in a …

By Christine Seo, InterHigh Mentor, Sophomore @ UC Berkeley

Do you ever wonder about the consequences of your seemingly meaningless actions? Ever wonder how the world would be different if you hadn’t got out of school a little late, putting you in the moment and position to be asked directions from someone who, otherwise, would have not arrived at his destination on time and not have met the people he met on the way there? How did he influence them? How did you influence him? How did he influence you? How …

By Dan Kinder, InterHigh Mentor, Junior @ UC Berkeley
I always knew elements of culture broke into our lives in subtle ways, but sometimes it takes a real life object to set me off thinking about it. The other day I saw a girl at the BART station carrying a bag with the catch-phrase “Live Your Life” printed on it, in very large colorful letters. My first lingering thought was: wow, isn’t that incredibly narcissistic? Of course she probably didn’t really think about it, and it turns out she’s not alone; …