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WHAT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF POLITICS, CULTURE, MORALITY, AND NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT IN RELATION TO YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST?

by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 1, 2016 | Faith, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Sexuality, Suffering, The World

Alan Torrance, professor of systematic theology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, engages the apostle Paul in a response to his letter to the Colossians. Dear Paul, So let me get this right! Everything is created through Christ, is held together in Christ...

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS AND MCCARTHYISM?

by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 13, 2016 | Atheism, Bible, Morality, Politics, Sexuality, The World

Using the historical analogies of the Salem Witch trials and McCarthyism, Mary Eberstadt in IT’S DANGEROUS TO BELIEVE: Religious Freedom and its Enemies, chronicles the efforts of the progressive-secular alliance in North America and Europe to enforce their...

WHEN SHOULD CHRISTIANS AND THE CHURCH CHALLENGE THE GOVERNMENT?

by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 8, 2016 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Witness

Continuing the insights of Jonathan Leeman in POLITICAL CHURCH: The Local Assembly as Embassy of Christ’s Rule begun in my last post, he cites the writings of John Locke which informed the thinking of the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence:...

WHAT SHOULD THE CHURCH SAY ABOUT ISSUES OF PUBLIC AND POLITICAL LIFE?

by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 23, 2016 | Church, Ministry, Morality, Sexuality, The World, Witness

In the USA we are being bombarded with diverse views on the state of the nation. The national political debate pits two presidential candidates and their philosophies against one another. What attitude should Christians have about politics? What place should the...

AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE RACE PROBLEM IN THE USA

by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 10, 2016 | Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was born in Jacksonville, Florida of educated parents who relocated from the Bahamas after the Civil War. In his enormously interesting and eloquent autobiography, ALONG THIS WAY, he tells the story of his childhood during...