If anyone invites you to a Christmas celebration honoring “Jesus Christ AND . . .,” run as fast as you can in the opposite direction.
Category Archives: Faith and politics
Celebrating the birth of Antichrist in Kentucky
In this nativity scene, what lies in the manger is the serpent. But to Congressman Massie and those who see with like eyes, it is sweet baby Jesus. The gun per se, though it has been used for great evil and in truth was designed for such use, is a tool, an implement. As itsContinue reading “Celebrating the birth of Antichrist in Kentucky”
The real choice
The most basic choice you make is not between left and right, liberal and conservative. Something else is more basic.
Evangelicalism in the USA: Discipleship failure owing to catechesis failure
The components of the recent discipleship disasters in evangelical Christianity in the United States. The evangelical churches were left vulnerable because they did not catechize well.
On labeling and name-calling
There is no good reason to categorize every thought in the world, and every person in the world, using one or the other of two labels. There are very good reasons not to.
How to get people to do good things: coerce, persuade—or agree
Better to find allies and change the culture than sell your soul in an effort to control others’ behavior
One Ring to Bind Them All: Conservative Christians and the Theocratic Impulse
For conservative White Christians in the USA, theocracy is the Ring of Power, and abortion is their reason for wanting to use it. But it has its own purposes.
All day long (Romans 10:21)
“ALL DAY LONG I HAVE HELD OUT MY HANDS TO A DISOBEDIENT AND OBSTINATE PEOPLE.” —Romans 10:21, citing Isaiah 65:2 How to feel about the recalcitrant? (Here is just another lesson in the long course in imitatio Dei that is the Christian life.) They just don’t get it. Are they incapable of understanding? Do theyContinue reading “All day long (Romans 10:21)”
The President and the Fourth
July 4 is not about celebrating the president, but it’s good to have a president who understands and supports the values that July 4 celebrates.
On observing July 4 as an American Christian
When the Fourth of July falls on a Sunday, Christians need to be careful about how they relate patriotism and worship.
Verba Sparsa 