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...
Abortion is a highly contested topic, like many other human rights issues (there are arguably two, if not three humans involved). Here’s my summary of the issue, from a moderate conservative point of view. But we need to ask ourselves, would Jesus support aborting babies? 1....
Interestingly, all religions (except Judaism, perhaps) recognize Jesus as some sort of spiritual prophet (which can not be said of Krishna, Buddha, or Mohammed). But what is interesting about Jesus, and perhaps all prophets, is that a closer inspection of his life reveals that he...
A recent article at the Huffington Post entitled The Foolishness of So-Called Biblical Gender Roles got me thinking – what is a Christian approach to gender roles? Now, to be fair, the HP article was criticizing the hard Complementarian position, one which I too criticize....
