Struggling with how to respond to the rising gender ideology without compromising your faith? This post explores biblical principles on honoring others while standing firm in truth, offering practical insights on how to navigate these cultural challenges with love, courage, and spiritual discernment. Join the conversation and share your thoughts!
America’s War-Cult
Unmasking the war-cult: How should Christians confront state-driven wars, soldier veneration, and the devaluation of human life through a biblical lens?
War & Politics: Can Christians Serve in Political or Military Vocations?
Can Christians serve in political or military roles? Discover a novel view based on 1 Corinthians 7 that navigates Just-War and pacifism debates.
War & Politics: Christians in War and Politics
Jesus said "my Kingdom is not of this world" (John 18:36), setting his Kingdom apart from the powers of this age, but what does this mean for how Christians engage the realities of war and politics in their time? Are Christians meant to hold political office, work in government, or advocate for political reform? Are Christians allowed to serve in police and military forces? What's our place in this world? These are difficult questions.
War & Politics: One Authority
I wrote this post on the day of President Trump's attempted assassination, emphasizing the urgent need for Christians to have robust answers to the questions of war and politics. Those are the answers we're trying to find here!
War & Politics: First Principle
How do you answer questions pertaining to "war and politics" as a Christian and follower of the Lord Jesus? This post sets out to build a new paradigm for dealing with these issues by constructing a "first principle". Come check it out and help me test this first principle!
Just War, Pacifism, or Witness-Theology?
What's the Christian's place in questions of "war and politics"? In this post I'm challenging the paradigms of both "Just War" and "Pacifism" to find a better way.
On What It’s Like Becoming A Christian Peacemaker
What's it like to turn from the crusader spirit of the just-war theory to the spirit of Christian peacemaking? In this post I share my own journey to becoming a Christian peacemaker to encourage those who are making the same journey.
Towards A Gospel-Means of Resisting Evil
As much as Jesus demonstrates in his life that it is true that "evil triumphs when good people do nothing", his life also clearly demonstrates the lesson that it is also true that evil triumphs when good people do evil. So how should Christians overcome evil?
The Inverted Sword
Christians are not called to be agents of wrath, seeking to execute vengeance upon the wicked, but to be agents of peace, seeking rather to bring about their redemption! We don't use force to crush our enemies, we depend upon the grace of God to transform them through the cross of Christ which we carry into this world.
