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 […]
Category: Social Issues
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 […]
Review of James Cone’s A Black Theology of Liberation
Posted onJames Cone is considered to be the founder of Black Liberation Theology, a variant of the Liberation Theology movement most widely connected with South American theologian Gustavo […]
The Christian Response to Sinners
Posted on“I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. So, as much as in […]