Lust Control, a Christian band with punk sensibilities similar to the Ramones mixed with thrash metal, put out a great album in 1992 called We Are Not Ashamed (you can buy it here for $6, now including the original songs plus many other live songs for a...
Progressive Christian blogger (bleh, I get a bad taste in my mouth putting those two words together, kind of like pro-choice Christian or pro-war Christian) Benjamin Corey has written a post arguing that Evangelicalism is the new Fundamentalism. I suppose in a sense, that’s true in...
This post is part of a series. A lot of ink has been spilt over the censure of Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins, whose error was a tweet seeming to equate Christianity and Islam: “I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian,...
My son is only 10 years old right now, but I’ve already started thinking about what i will tell him as he gets interested in women and marriage. Here’s a list. If at all possible, wait until after you’ve finished college and are more than...
This series is made up of the following posts: Three Types of Aggression 1: Rhetoric Three Types of Aggression 2: Incitement Three Types of Aggression 3: Force
This post is part of a series. If rhetoric is protected speech, and incitement is not, is violence or use of mortal force ever ethically justified? The question of pacifism is an important subject, from both the ethical and Christian theology points of view. From a...
This post is part of a series. In Part 1 of this series, I argued that warlike rhetoric is not unethical, but it must be used with caution and some caveats if we are not to be misunderstood as inciting violence. The next level of...
This post is part of a series. One common error that frustrates public debate is the lack of clear definition of terms. Often, such distinctions are lost in a lazy commingling, if not conflation of ideas that fails to move discussions forward. One such conflation...
