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One of Jesus’ most misused statements is “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” For the forty-fifth-umpteenth-hundredth time I had some well-meaning believer try to apply that to international political policy. “We shouldn’t fight Iran. We should just love them.” I heard this same nonsense during the Iraq wars. “Jesus said to love your enemies not fight […]
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Americans should all be celebrating the long-overdue demise of the Roe and Casey decisions. It has been long noted that the Roe decision was considered to be judicial activism by the Supreme Court since the Constitution says nothing about abortion. The 1973 court simply created the idea as legal fiction. In undoing Roe, the Court kicked the issue back to […]
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The Syrian refugee crisis has brought to light the difficult question concerning how Christians live as both citizens of the Kingdom of God and citizens of the United States of America. The way the issue is presented it seems that a series of false dichotomies has been constructed in an attempt to force an either/or decision between the two. The […]
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One of the complaints leveled at those of us who dare to address social issues and still identify as Christians involves the distinction of the church from the state. The typical expression of this thought is twofold. The first is that the church depends too much on the state and government structure for its success. When the government fails, then […]
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