America, the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, was on its way to self-destruction the moment it began. This is not the fault of the left, of CNN, of PBS, of government education, nor does the issue lie with the Republican Party or Fox News. The problem ...
The Problem with Romans 13 Romans 13:1-7 is one of the most difficult passages in the New Testament. For starters, there is a long and convoluted interpretive history of not only this single, isolated teaching in Romans but of Paul’s letter as a whole. In my judgment, Romans is by ...
What comes to mind when we think about choice? Around this time, every other year, we think of voting as a choice. But is it really? For a lot of people the apathy about voting, I think, is fueled by disgust and the sense that a voter’s vote doesn’t count. ...
I started taking my faith seriously when I was 15, and, in a stereotypically Lutheran fashion, immediately began reading my Bible. It became obvious to me after one reading of the New Testament that Christians were obligated to take care of the poor and should be extremely charitable. It was ...
On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president. He was immediately mocked by Washington insiders. The mainstream media treated his campaign as a ridiculous human interest story, much like a frog wearing a straw hat or a chihuahua that dances to Lady Gaga songs. Of this late ...
Christians are having a lively debate discussing what kind of relationship they should have with the state or with the nations in which they live. On one side you have those who claim that the only nation a Christian belongs to is their spiritual nation, the universal church. They minimize ...
“Only a believer in the economic way of thinking can safely explore moral reflection in economics.” – Alex Salter INTRODUCTION Paul tells us, in 2 Corinthians 3:6, that “the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life,” (NIV). This summarizes an important teaching of Jesus Christ, according to Whom “The Sabbath ...
A History of Libertarian Toleration of Intolerance In 2008, when the Ron Paul Revolution was heating up and libertarian ideas were getting the widest hearing they had received since perhaps the presidency of Calvin Coolidge, back issues of the Ron Paul Report newsletter came to mainstream attention. Some of these ...
Football season has arrived in the U.S. But do fans who financially support the sport bear any responsibility for the fearsome health toll endured by far too many of the young men who play professional, college, and even high school football? The Journal of the American Medical Association revealed a ...
In the wake of the near assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally, a large number of Americans have wondered if he survived solely “by the grace of God.” Indeed, many believe that the Almighty Himself must have altered the direction of the assassin’s bullet so that ...
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