Fighting Injustice, Condemning Violence: Jesus’ Gospel of Social Justice and Restoration
Posted on(the previous title for this post was “What Does Easter Sunday Have To Do With Social Liberation?” This material is also included in my book […]
Category: Social Issues
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 […]
Habakkuk and God’s Judgment Upon Militarism
Posted onI’ve been reading through the minor prophets (the twelve small books named after the prophets behind them in the Old Testament) and today I got […]
Can Christians Own Possessions and Still Love the Poor?
Posted onIn reflecting on my recent debate regarding who had the better moral philosophy, Jesus or Ayn Rand, I thought about a question my debate opponent […]
Early Christianity’s Subversion of the Sexual Power Games of Patriarchal Greece and Rome
Posted onI recently discovered an article by David Konstan entitled “Enacting Eros” (http://www.stoa.org/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Stoa:text:2002.01.0004). What interested me most about this article was its discussion of sex and […]
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 […]
Abraham Lincoln and the Abolitionist Arguments Against Abortion
Posted onWas reading over a book about the Lincoln-Douglas debates and found this section to offer an incredible parallel to the abortion debate we’re having today: […]
Foucault on Sexual Liberation
Posted onCame across this excellent take on “sexual liberation” by, surprisingly, Michel Foucault. I read it in Foucault: A Very Short Introduction by Gary Gutting. “This […]
The Dark Knight Rises, the French Revolution, and the Dangers of Political Extremism
Posted onRecently released on DVD, The Dark Knight Rises completes director Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. The plot hinges upon villain Bane’s takeover of Gotham for […]