On the one hand, goodness can come as a result of legitimate unity. On the other, the truths on which unity depends where legitimacy is concerned cannot be denied, or wishcasted into being.More
Category Archives: Politics
Whether More or Fewer Guns Make Society Safer
The teaching of our Lord, to turn the other cheek when someone strikes us on the one, is non-negotiable. Yet we must also recognize that this is not a blanket condemnation of self-defense.More
‘Fear God, Honor The Emperor’ Statement by Evangelicals and Christians Together
We now inhabit a society which stubbornly denies God’s call to place our faith in Him. Thus, in rejecting God’s authority, we also see the unraveling of the basis for human authority. More
Romance Presenting Masculine or Feminine, The Rings of Power, and Doug Mastriano
These are not questions on which parents generally, but Christians in particular, can afford to be silent. If the Republican party is going to endure, it has to get right with God.More
Andrew Tate’s Grandmother, Elon Musk and Ukraine, and ‘None Dare Call It Conspiracy’
Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12 that we do indeed wrestle against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers, and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. And perhaps these are them.More
Columbus Day, School Choice, Internet Trolls, and Colorado’s 8th Congressional District
I recently engaged an attack ad on Facebook against the Republican candidate for Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, and her ‘extreme’ support for a nationwide ban on abortion.More
Mel Gibson as Maverick, Perspectives on Hell, and Lindsey Graham vs. Elon Musk
Bringing up EV tax credits is not the way to go about having that debate. It was ugly of Senator Graham to take things there, and that is not a winning hand for anyone involved.More
Conservative and Progressive, Relative Terms
I think, then, it would be wise for us all to re-evaluate who is really conserving what. And who is really liberating whom from constraints which are any constraints at all?More
A Word About Natural Rights, Old Books, Free Speech, and Hurricane Ian
It seems Dr. Biggar has only two categories for rights – the legal rights granted by civil governments, and moral appeals from the governed to be granted more rights by their same.More
Governing Authority, Political Violence, and Selling Your Cloak to Buy a Sword
By my reading of Paul’s letter to the Romans, God is not scandalized that wrongdoers have His wrath carried out against them, or have terror held for them in the civil magistrates.More