No, Evangelicals Are Not Selling Their Souls for Israel
A Reflection Occasioned by Jim Fitzgerald’s Recent Article
... The Aquila Report has released its most read articles of 2023. Number 19 on the list is “Are Evangelicals Selling Their Souls for Israel?” by Jim Fitzgerald, a missionary...
A Response To “Are Evangelicals Selling Their Souls For Israel?”
Stand for justice for the Palestinian people and reaching them with the gospel, and criticize Israel strongly if it falls short, but take care not to be aligned with her enemies.
...should the Christian position be on this war? Well, I don’t think it should be Jim Fitzgerald’s position, as previously published in The Aquila Report. Here is my response: I...
“Evangelical” Is Not a Political Term
For evangelicals, the real “struggle to shape America” takes place in their personal spiritual lives and cultural engagements, which is far beyond the how they vote in November.
...is the weakness at the heart of the journalist Frances FitzGerald’s new book, The Evangelicals, a sprawling 700-plus page history of the nation’s most important and influential religious movement. FitzGerald,...
War “Upon Just and Necessary Occasion”
From a confessional standpoint, America’s recent wars in the Middle East beg the following questions: Are they just? And are they necessary?
...is coming to an end. One can hope, and pray. Rev. Jim Fitzgerald is a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and a staff member of Equipping Pastors International....
The Demon in Democracy
Communism and political liberalism are decidedly intolerant. Tolerance, thus conceived, is what the state says it is, and nothing more.
...resemblance as, “The Demon in Democracy.”[2] Jim Fitzgerald is a Minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and a missionary with Equipping Pastors International. [1] The terminology “liberal, democratic liberalism,...
‘Evangelicals,’ the ‘Christian’ Putin, and the War in Ukraine: A Response to Mindy Belz
As a whole the people of Ukraine are nearly as conservative on social issues as are the people of Russia.
...this in mind, it seems unlikely that Putin is viewing Ukraine as anything close to resembling a successful democracy. The facts would suggest that we shouldn’t either. Jim Fitzgerald is...
A Great Anthropological First: An Honest Conversation About Race
Two simultaneous truths: First, that we are among the most racist of all societies. Second, we are among the first nations in history to care one iota about racism.
...it is unlikely that we will have the honest conversation that so many are advocating for today. Jim Fitzgerald is a Minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and a...
The Plague in Literature and Life
One common feature found in nearly all plague literature, is the “reciprocal resemblance” between the plague as a medical event, and as a metaphorical episode.
...the plague literature of tomorrow will likely tell an entirely different story than the one we are being told today. Jim Fitzgerald is a Minister in the Presbyterian Church in...
Man is the Measure of All Things: The Scale of the Pandemic and Everything Else
The Son of Man is the true measure of all things.
...statement to say, “The Son of Man is the measure of all things.” Rev. Jim Fitzgerald is a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and a staff member of...
Against Masks: Not Hindering Our Personal and Relational Connection With Others
For Greeks and the Romans, “person” referred to the role played in the theater or society; it was external to one’s true identity. In short, a person was a mask.
...to promoting a pathology that is worse than the pandemic. It is on this basis, and for these reasons, that I am against masks. Rev. Jim Fitzgerald is a minister...