AUDIO: My interview on Ordinary Folk podcast
Posted onI was recently interviewed on the Ordinary Folk podcast. We talked about theology, politics, the relationship between church and state, and superheroes. Click the image […]
Category: Church and State
How Shall We Then Vote?
Posted onThere seem to be two basic attitudes in the church in regard to the question of how Christians should vote. The first is that politics […]
Michael Sattler: Radical Christian
Posted onThough Protestants have in more recent years come around to the principle of separation of church and state, this was not so in the beginning. […]
Christian Involvement in Politics Is Not a Zero-Sum Game
Posted onWhen Christianity became the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380 (after being granted the status of an approved religion by Emperor Constantine […]
The Defeat of American Constantianism and the Resurrection of Grace
Posted onI once heard Phil Burress, head of the religiously and politically conservative organization Citizens for Community Values, talk about the political work that his group had […]
The New Testament’s Relationship to the Old Testament (with discussion of typology, the relationship between law and grace, and theonomy)
Posted onOne of the perennial difficulties in Christian theology is the relationship of the Old Testament to the New. Perhaps the strongest proponent for discontinuity between […]
World Vision, Same Sex Marriages, and Christian Hypocrisy
Posted onRecently, the Christian humanitarian organization World Vision changed their policy of not hiring individuals in same sex marriages (http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/march-web-only/world-vision-why-hiring-gay-christians-same-sex-marriage.html). The change in policy does not […]
Gay Marriage, Traditionalism, and the Fight for Political Power
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Today the U.S. Supreme Court finds itself the focus of media attention as it deliberates on the constitutionality of California’s gay marriage ban (Proposition […]
Should Christians Participate in War?
Posted onWe are living in a world consumed by war. Despite how long this violence continues, we never seem to reach a solution. Many are personally […]