It is generally assumed that the fundamental problems we face as a society are political in nature and therefore have a “political”...

In part one, I discussed Jesus and the Powers by N.T. Wright and Michael Bird, which gives us a much-needed perspective on our fragmented...

During his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he would only be a “dictator” on Day 1 of his...

On November 11, 1947, just two years after the end of the Second World War, Winston Churchill said these famous words about democracy in...

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...

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...

Recently, in the holy week preceding Easter, Donald Trump, the presumptive presidential nominee for the Republican Party in the 2024...

On May 31, 2009, a man named George was serving as an usher inside Reformation Lutheran Church of Wichita, Kansas. It was Pentecost...

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...

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...

A discipline often promoted by progressive activists on the left, critical theory (CT) has become a hot button issue among evangelicals,...

In Democracy’s Discontents: America in Search of a Public Philosophy, Michael Sandel warns of a tendency to a fundamentalist mindset that...

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...

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...

Abortion is one of the most divisive issues of our time. However, it might surprise you to learn that before the current “abortion wars,”...

Those who regard themselves as Christians like to think that they are immune to the wiles of political hucksters and demagogues. But history

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:...

After an extensive tour of the United States, the popular German theologian and pastor Helmut Thielicke was asked what he had observed...

Of the issues dividing our nation none is more contentious than the issue of race. In recent years, various church denominations have...

In Christianity, the cross is the ultimate symbol of forgiveness, love, and grace. Yet, however much we would like the Christian faith to...