This past weekend I watched the film The Birth of a Nation – here’s the summary: Set against the antebellum South, THE BIRTH OF A NATION follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), accepts...
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
The other day, a friend mined the following quote from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility: The only force equal to a fundamentalism of hate is a counter-fundamentalism of love. (p. 8) Jonathan Sacks is an important thought leader in...
This series is made up of the following posts: The Limits of Christian Non-Violence 01: Non-redemptive Destruction The Limits of Christian Non-Violence 02: The Balancing Principles
This post is part of a series. In Part 01, I introduced three situations in which pure pacifism may fail, and in which we need some balancing principles that prevent enabling of sin, abuse, and death of innocents. Profound Truths As Paradox Evangelicals recognize the paradoxical...
This post is part of a series. I am taking a pretty fantastic course at Fuller Theological Seminary this quarter entitled IS502 – THE PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY. Fuller is largely populated with what I would call center-left Evangelicals, and often, the profs and students...
The relationship of faith and science is controversial, and there are perhaps 5 simple philosophic positions you can take: 1. Science Trumps Religion (EMA) That is, science alone can answer not only questions of the physical world, but of ethics and morals as well. Religion is...
This post is part of a series. In Part 1, I introduced the idea that, in addition to scriptural arguments in support of Conditional Immortality (CI), we must also secondarily, but importantly, evaluate CI from a philosophic point of view. Here’s an overview. The Three Major...
