Girard is helpful here too when he warns us not to turn the words of Jesus into some kind of empty rhetorical formula or some kind of sentimental exaggeration. “Persecutors think they are doing good; the right thing; they believe they are working for justice and truth; they believe they are saving the community.” In... Continue Reading

However, a few weeks later we were notified that corporate headquarters had pulled the plug on both book signings. It was unfortunate seeing how the owner/operators had extended the invitation in the first place. It was not that big of a deal — and so I decided to keep the incident quiet. But with today’s... Continue Reading

Acceptance or rejection of an intersectional mindset is a fault line in Culture War 2.0. Specifically, the dividing line defining sides in this culture war arises along one’s answers to what role intersectionality should play in how we understand reality and how we design legal, economic, and educational systems.   This is where it gets... Continue Reading

What if the percentage of true Christians in America really is declining, which it might well be? Well, while the faith is shriveling in one part of the world, it may be thriving in another. While more and more Americans grow publicly antagonistic to Christ (which is indeed sad), there are others around the world... Continue Reading

I fully admit that my understanding of Christianity is based on a historic, Protestant and evangelical reading of Scripture. Dr. Levinson is quite right to call attention to that fact. While contemporary critical theory is indeed compatible with various forms of Christian mysticism or liberation theology, my contention is that it is not compatible with... Continue Reading

…at many colleges including Bowdoin, Vanderbilt, and the 23 campuses in the Cal State system, administrators are removing official recognition from Christian prayer and reading groups, mostly for these groups’ refusal to accept non-Christians in leadership positions. This might be taken as covered primarily by the idea of shunning, but it contains an element of... Continue Reading

We have few illusions that any kind of “ultimate” or complete liberation can be achieved on earth.  We believe in a kind of human progress toward greater justice and more robust forms of democracy, but it would also seem to be in the human condition to fall back into patterns of domination (And this also... Continue Reading

The older I get, the more I realize that my struggle with anxiety and depression has been at the center of the circumstances God has used in the past three decades to strengthen my faith and to increase my desire to know Him through His Word. All of the times that I consider to be... Continue Reading

Two PCA Presbyteries have taken the issue into their own hands, and as church courts communicated their grievance to Missouri Presbytery about this innovative Side B sexual identity.  One of those is my own Presbytery – Westminster.  These two presbyteries are asking for an investigation, but again, I don’t see Missouri Presbytery turning against one... Continue Reading

“Babies with Down Syndrome are still being born in Iceland,” concedes the head of the nation’s leading Prenatal Diagnosis Unit. “We didn’t find them in our screening.” They’re the lucky ones. The others are aborted. “We don’t look at abortion as a murder,” shrugs another “health” official in Iceland. “We look at it as a... Continue Reading