Month: December 2017

The American mainland is apparently now within range of North Korean missiles, bringing the prospect of nuclear attack to my generation for the first time (the Berlin Wall fell nineteen days before I was born).

It’s safe to say at this point that we are involved in another cold war, although this time it’s with a country smaller than Missouri and lacking the capability the old Soviet Union had of annihilating the US over the course of a lunch break. But the Soviet Union, for all its atrocities, was run by calculating men who proved unwilling to subject the world to nuclear war. By contrast, it’s distressingly unclear whether the leaders of North Korea are, in fact, sane.

The threat posed by North Korean nukes can be greatly exaggerated, but it is real. It’s also a good opportunity for American Christians to reflect on how to live in the face of potential horrors. The obvious answer is that we must live by faith, and this is certainly true, but we need to be careful about what we mean, exactly, by the word “faith.”

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