Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers

"The Chosen" is a multi-season television drama about the life of Jesus Christ and his disciples. For the characters, it offers creatively written backstories not found in the Scripture, but the drama attempts to portray the biblical story of Jesus in a manner faithful to the primary message of the biblical narrative. This is the third of three podcasts on "The Chosen." For mor...

"The Chosen" is a multi-season television drama, just releasing Season 4 and  scheduled for seven seasons, about the life of Jesus Christ and his disciples. An evangelical Christian, Dallas Jenkins, is the creator, producer.  Some viewers have criticized the show in certain details and storylines, and at least one if not two controversies developed outside the show's content. This s...

"The Chosen" is a planned 7-season television drama on the life of Jesus Christ and his disciples. It tells the greatest story ever told with imaginative backstories and interpersonal conflicts. This is the first of three sequential podcasts on the series. "The Chosen" is cinematic art, not unlike the paintings of the Renaissance or Reformation, but a contemporary media in whic...

Easter is the defining celebration of Christianity, focusing upon Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross, death and burial, then resurrection for the salvation of those who put their faith in him. There is no other religious holiday like it. He is risen. He is risen indeed. For more Christian commentary, see my website at rexmrogers.com.

Civil liberties are the "unalienable rights" of the Declaration of Independence, life, liberty, and in Thomas Jefferson's words, pursuit of happiness. Civil liberties are human or natural rights, our human birthright from God as designated in nature. Civil liberties list what government cannot take away. Civil rights are additional, expanded protections or rights granted by governme...

Proverbs 22:6, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it,” is a principle that until recently I thought applied solely to the development of good Christian attitudes and behavior. Then it occurred to me that this principle works whether one is teaching a child worthy or unworthy values and ways of moving through their lives. In a sense, it is a promi...

It seems that each time a moral standard is displaced, the social process refocuses upon another traditional moral standard that the Left argues is somehow a great restriction and oppression upon personal liberty. Gambling, a longtime social evil, fell in the 90s and early 2010s, same-sex marriage was legally embraced in 2015, then transgenderism took its turn. Trans ideology has now conquered Ame...

SAT-7 is a Christian satellite and online broadcaster based in Cyprus and broadcasting 24/7 in Arabic, Farsi, and Turkish throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) - now also reaching into Afghanistan, Tajikistan. The technology of satellites is virtually un-censorable, and the internet is far-reaching. Truly SAT-7 is able to use technology, to communicate theology, in a timely fashion. S...

Population decline is now a serious consideration in Western Europe, the US and North America, Japan, China, and several more countries. In fact, the only countries where the population replacement rate is functioning at a needed, typical level, are several Sub-Saharan countries in Africa, Egypt, and a few countries in the Far East. Why is this happening? Why are people rejecting the idea of more...

Christian Nationalism has become a kind of grab bag label for several religious or specifically Christian approaches to engagement in US national politics. Some of these approaches are, frankly, unbiblical. While some may not call themselves by this term, yet they believe the USA was founded upon Judeo-Christian values, and that this public moral consensus, now fracturing, is still sorely needed t...

Climate Change is no longer simply about concern for the environment. Now among climate change alarmists, particularly globalist elites, climate change is a means to an end, a scare tactic to institute government controls, insure the power of leftist socialists, increase the size of government, promote population decline via abortion and other means, and otherwise put in place a laundry list of re...

If any word could describe the current condition of American culture it might be confused, so much so that the words of Scripture comes to mind as Jesus looked upon Jerusalem he thought of them as harassed and helpless as sheep without a shepherd. That's what we have today, harassed and helpless people, living in confusion that is a produce to their own choices. With all that, because God is...

Digital Identification is now a commonplace of postmodern life. In many ways, the capacity to store and share information online, including personally identifying information, is helpful, making commerce and communication run more smoothly. But it also makes our most private information, and what we own--our values, interests, activities, bank accounts, etc.--available to a growing complex of inte...

Digital Identification, or Digital ID, is an assemblage of online personally identifying information extracted from our digital footprint - all our activity and actions online - or specifically inputted to create our unique ID. It sounds good, and in many applications it is good, reducing paperwork, speeding health records or purchases, etc. But our Digital ID is also subject to governments, corpo...

Age comes to us all, great and small, rich and poor, no matter our demographics. In fact, the only alternative is death. So aging doesn't seem so bad by comparison to most of us. Question is, can one or how does one age biblically? What can we learn from Scripture about what God says about aging. Seems logical to ask because God is the one who made us and the one who determines the number of...

Back in 1995, Pope John Paul II attracted worldwide attention for calling growing support for abortion and euthanasia a “culture of death .”  Now we’re told by the President of the United States that climate change “is the challenge of our collective lifetimes. The existential threat to human existence as we know it.” America’s “climate czar” John Kerry recently tipped his hand, saying, “The real...

The self-induced, unrecognized - at least by the current Administration - immigration crisis on the US southern border continues to worsen. It's difficult to comprehend, why the Biden Administration is neglecting its constitutional responsibilities, and why opponents don't do more the stop it. This piece is not about preaching bigotry or prejudice. It is not against immigration or immigr...

The downfall of the Harvard University President Claudine Gay for more than 50 alleged incidents of plagiarism in her scholarly work, including her dissertation, was something that was too long coming, but in a sense, should never have happened at all. Surely the Presidential Search Committee at Harvard is better than to have allowed this candidate to rise to the top among some 600+ candidates? Bu...

A huge mood swing takes place between Christmas and New Year's, one that involves worldviews and values. Society moves from "Silent Night, Holy Night" and peace on earth to raucous, riotous living, drinking, sensuality, and party-hardy. No one knows what the new year will bring, but we can rely on the providence, presence, promises, and peace of God.  For more Christian commentary,...

Isaiah 9:6 announced, “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace .” This is the real reason for the Christmas season.  But peace does not seem to exist in the world Christmas 2023, in part because God knows people will be drawn to him at such times and in p...

Current events always surprise us because we are not omniscient, nor can we see into the future. Then again, there are certain things happening in the US that I thought I'd never see in my lifetime. Some are silly, many are irrational, some are threatening and dangerous to the body politic. Some of these events or developments are unpredictable in the sense that, as noted, we are not Nostrada...

Are we living today what philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre observed, “If there is no God, then everything is permitted”?  It certainly seems that way.  Since at least the 1960s, what’s been happening, first gradually, now rapidly, is an intentional rejection of Judeo-Christian values of morality and society, followed by a replacement of these traditional values, first by secularism, then by radical so-...

In the past two months, since the Oct 7 Hamas attack and butchery of innocent and unsuspecting Israelis, and since the Israel Defense Force launched its military mission to eradicate Hamas, rather amazingly, antisemitic incidents have skyrocketed in the United States and in many other Western countries. While there have been some attacks on Arabs or Palestinians in these countries, and there have...

Our culture tends to be "binary," except regarding sexuality where indeed God made male and female. But today, American culture seems to think if you are "for" this, you must automatically be "against" that. There is no nuance. The most dominant current ideology, cultural Marxism, which finds its way into "Woke" philosophies, sees the world in terms of Oppre...

American culture has been on a downhill slide for some time. You know that if you are an adult past middle age. What used to be considered wrong or immoral is now often celebrated--like promiscuity, or at least ignored--like Smash and Grab retail crime. Question is, how long can a civilization maintain if its shared values are shattered, if no standards of right and wrong or appropriate behavior a...