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Onward Christian Soldiers: The New Apostolic Reformation, Trump Prophecies, & the Politics of Spiritual Warfare

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Oct 264 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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The Crisis of Post-Truth Politics & What We Can Do About It

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Jun 2746 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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Has Democracy Had It’s Day? Carl F. H. Henry and the Future of the American Republic (part one)

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May 2211 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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Abortion Wars: The Institutionalization of Cultural Conflict

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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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The Christian & Abortion—Part 3: What is the Church’s Moral Responsibility?

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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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The Illusion of Ideology—Part Four: Critical Theory, Politics & Faith

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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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The Illusion of Ideology—Part 3: Critical Theory, Helpful or Harmful?

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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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The Illusion of Ideology—Part Two: The Problem of White Christian Nationalism

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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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The Illusion of Ideology—Part One: A Case of False Identity

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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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The Christian & Abortion (Part 2): Being Consistently Pro-Life

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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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The Christian & Abortion (Part 1): The Origins of the Pro-Life Movement

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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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Revelation 12-19 & Political Idolatry: John's Warning to the Church

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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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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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Some Reflections on Christians & Suffering in the Covid-19 Era

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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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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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Have We Compromised the Gospel of Forgiveness?

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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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Embracing Forgiveness, Reconciliation & Justice

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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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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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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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Easter, the Coronavirus Pandemic & the Biblical Hope

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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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