by David Fischler | Mar 30, 2020 | Religious Freedom
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has had it with religious types insisting on continuing to meet for worship amid the COVID-19 crisis. They are ignoring him, and according to the Washington Examiner, they’re gonna regret it: “A small number of religious...
by Matt Kennedy | Mar 18, 2020 | Go to Church, Religious Freedom, Spirituality, The Gospel
I have great faith in the government’s capacity to take a moderately bad situation and turn it into an epic job-killing, life-changing, debacle that requires decades of recovery. That being said, I have three kids down with a flu unlike any flu I have ever seen. We...
by Tim Fountain | Dec 29, 2019 | Bible Study, Biblical Illiteracy, Jesus, Religious Freedom, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism, U.S. Politics, Woke Church
Photo of Hong Kong protests by Ng Han Guan, Associated Press Mary, Joseph and the baby in their care traverse borders and overlapping political realities in the Biblical narratives of Jesus’ birth. An attentive and honest reading of these main historical sources...
by David Fischler | Dec 6, 2019 | LGBTQIetc, Lutherans, Religious Freedom
That’s the title of a Sinclair Lewis novel about the coming of fascism to America. The Nobel Prize winning writer contended that, if it could happen in civilized Europe, it could happen in the United States as well. Here’s one form it will take: The...
by David Fischler | Nov 30, 2019 | Abortion, Religious Freedom
I can’t tell you how happy I am that Stand Firm is back in business. Partly it’s because we have a great team of writers and thinkers here, and interacting with them is a joy. Partly, it’s because as Gandalf declared, “There are many powers in...
