What If Trump Is Still President? (He is.) Combative by nature, happier in a fight, the president may now have to choose between escalating the pitched conflict that has torn Washington apart in...
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Evangelicalism is Broken. Do They Know? Do They Care? (review of Labberton’s “Still Evangelical?”)
Many of them see no crisis, judging from 5 of the 12 articles in Mark Labbertons’s recent valuable book Still Evangelical? (pub’d Jan 2018). If you are concerned about these issues – if you...
The Love Off-Switch – Say “But Abortion” and You Don’t Have to Love Your Neighbors!
If you mention any social issue needing attention, that does not involve abortion agitation, some people come back with – “Well, there are more abortions than there are victims of that...
6 Truths for the Trump Years – Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
A black man in prison in a racist southern city in 1963 was a man whose life was in danger. Sadly, a black man anywhere in the US today is a man whose life is in danger. But while in that dangerous...
Jesus and Racism – Samaritan Lives Matter – Black Lives Matter
Samaritans in Jesus’ day were both religiously and racially despised. The phrase “Samaritan lives matter” would have been very offensive to the Jewish culture in which Jesus was...
John Paul II: Private Prayer and the Dangers of Public Life
For decades he resisted Nazi, then Communist, oppression. How did he cope?