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Oct 26, 20244 min read
Onward Christian Soldiers: The New Apostolic Reformation, Trump Prophecies, & the Politics of Spiritual Warfare
A well-known fact is that Donald Trump garnered about 80 percent of the white evangelical vote in both the 2016 and 2020 elections. What...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Jun 27, 202446 min read
The Crisis of Post-Truth Politics & What We Can Do About It
On January 6, 2021, an angry mob of supporters of the outgoing president Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop the...
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ronaldhesselgrave
May 22, 202411 min read
Has Democracy Had It’s Day? Carl F. H. Henry and the Future of the American Republic (part one)
Recently, in the holy week preceding Easter, Donald Trump, the presumptive presidential nominee for the Republican Party in the 2024...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Jun 29, 202334 min read
Abortion Wars: The Institutionalization of Cultural Conflict
On May 31, 2009, a man named George was serving as an usher inside Reformation Lutheran Church of Wichita, Kansas. It was Pentecost...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Jun 29, 202231 min read
The Christian & Abortion—Part 3: What is the Church’s Moral Responsibility?
In a monumental decision, the Supreme Court has given a victory to pro-life advocates for the unborn by overturning Roe v. Wade, ending a...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Apr 16, 202114 min read
The Illusion of Ideology—Part Four: Critical Theory, Politics & Faith
In my last post, I gave a general overview of critical theory and its practical uses as well as abuses. In this last post I want to focus...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Apr 15, 202110 min read
The Illusion of Ideology—Part 3: Critical Theory, Helpful or Harmful?
A discipline often promoted by progressive activists on the left, critical theory (CT) has become a hot button issue among evangelicals,...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Apr 14, 20219 min read
The Illusion of Ideology—Part Two: The Problem of White Christian Nationalism
In Democracy’s Discontents: America in Search of a Public Philosophy, Michael Sandel warns of a tendency to a fundamentalist mindset that...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Apr 12, 202112 min read
The Illusion of Ideology—Part One: A Case of False Identity
In a recent New York Times op-ed, the well-known political commentator Peter Wehner describes how as a college student in the early 1980s...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Dec 11, 202021 min read
The Christian & Abortion (Part 2): Being Consistently Pro-Life
Concerning the practice of abortion in the United States there is both good news and bad news. The good news is that, despite rhetoric to...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Nov 23, 20208 min read
The Christian & Abortion (Part 1): The Origins of the Pro-Life Movement
Abortion is one of the most divisive issues of our time. However, it might surprise you to learn that before the current “abortion wars,”...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Sep 24, 202014 min read
Revelation 12-19 & Political Idolatry: John's Warning to the Church
Those who regard themselves as Christians like to think that they are immune to the wiles of political hucksters and demagogues. But history
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ronaldhesselgrave
Sep 2, 20208 min read
The Crave Is A Powerful Thing
In the popular HBO show MadMen, which is set in the 1960s during the boom of the ad industry, the main character Don Draper remarks:...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Aug 29, 20206 min read
Some Reflections on Christians & Suffering in the Covid-19 Era
After an extensive tour of the United States, the popular German theologian and pastor Helmut Thielicke was asked what he had observed...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Jul 26, 202012 min read
Christians, Black Lives Matter & Racism
Of the issues dividing our nation none is more contentious than the issue of race. In recent years, various church denominations have...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Jul 6, 202012 min read
Have We Compromised the Gospel of Forgiveness?
In Christianity, the cross is the ultimate symbol of forgiveness, love, and grace. Yet, however much we would like the Christian faith to...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Jun 28, 202011 min read
Embracing Forgiveness, Reconciliation & Justice
A little over five years ago, on June 17, 2015, a 21-year-old white supremacist named Dylann Roof committed one of the most heinous...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Jun 3, 202011 min read
Divided by Race
1 Corinthians 11:17-34 is well known and of particular importance, since it is the only time when Paul (in conjunction with some verses...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Jun 2, 20205 min read
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Many Americans will remember watching as a child Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood which aired on PBS for thirty years. The TV show had an...
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ronaldhesselgrave
Apr 6, 20206 min read
Easter, the Coronavirus Pandemic & the Biblical Hope
We humans are by nature meaning-seeking creatures. Particularly in times that are disturbing or disorienting, religion is used to frame...
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