To bake the cake or not to bake the cake? That is the question. It seems simple, but this query is generating a fair amount of controversy within the Christian community. The question is not really about whether our cakes should be from scratch or a box, but it is about gay marriage and the […]
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Let Them Bake Cakes (Part 1)?
25 Feb 2014
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Back to the Future: Politics in the Past
20 Feb 2014
After a few weeks of being immersed in arcane historical reading and teaching, I have concluded it isn’t so arcane as we think. Of course, I knew that already, but there is nothing like being away from blogging to remind one. What I mean is this: Many or most of the political thinkers and ideas […]
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Law and the Christian: A Modest Proposal
01 Feb 2014
Do you know the difference between right and wrong? Do you have a good idea of what ought to be illegal and what legal? Do you know why you know, if you do? In other words, what is your foundation for distinguishing right and wrong? Do you have a foundation at all? Our society of […]
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A New Year and God: An Exhortation
05 Jan 2014
In this new year it is always useful to take stock of where we are and have been, but more helpful is it to take a renewed look at who God is and why it matters. For Christians 2013 has been a mixed bag, or worse, depending on one’s disposition. We read of persecution of […]
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Legislating Morality? Addendum to Part 3
02 Jan 2014
Well, it seems the third in a series of blogs on “Legislating Morality?” has elicited a few comments on the, shall we say, opposing side of the issue. So in the interest of fairness and sympathy I will try to clarify in this blog a couple of issues. The two most controversial issues I raised […]
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In the first two blogs, I have begun the attempt to initiate greater reflection on the origins, role, authority, limits and functions of government, as well as our place as Christians under the authority of government. I said at the start that absolute answers were limited. This is true mainly because the Scriptures are relatively […]
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My colleague Jeff Haymond wrote in a comment on my recent blog, “Legislating Morality? Christians, Law and Politics,” that I had raised questions but not given answers. He was correct. So now that he has prodded me for answers I will put myself in jeopardy of all sorts of criticism by offering some tentative answers. […]
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Once upon a time, there was a group of Presbyterians and other Christian denominations in America who argued for the “crown rights of King Jesus” to be embodied in government and specifically in the United States Constitution. I know it sounds strange to our modern and secular ears to hear that in 1864 this odd […]
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Science supports complementarianism! Warning: political incorrectness within–enter at your own risk!
11 Dec 2013
On the day after GM announced its first ever female CEO, we can consider the latest scientific evidence on male/female differences. The latest science reported in the popular press is making much of brain imaging which identifies the way neurons fire in the brain. You will be shocked–yes shocked–to know that women’s brains operate differently […]
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“I’m a Christian! Vote for Me!”
05 Dec 2013
U.S. Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) is probably taking the first few steps of a political death march–and it shows. With his election coming up in November 2014, why is Pryor doing this? Arkansas, like much of the South, has transitioned from a bastion of Democrat dominance into a reliably red-state of Republicanism. In 2012, Arkansas […]