by Mark Marshall | Apr 20, 2020 | Coronavirus, Religious Freedom, U.S. Politics
The other day I was thinking (which in my case is quite dangerous) that during this coronavirus crisis we have heard a lot from Romans 13, but we have heard very little from Mark 12:17. Further, I cannot recall hearing that or the parallel verses of Luke 20:25 and...
by Anne Kennedy | Apr 8, 2020 | Abortion, Eschatology, Jesus, The Gospel, U.S. Politics
As I was briefly scrolling around the internet yesterday (I am trying to stay away, I really am) watching people being angry and stressed about the very idea that some Christians (like me) would say that you can know to one degree or another why God lets bad things...
by Anne Kennedy | Mar 27, 2020 | Abortion, Corrupt Media, Eschatology, U.S. Politics
It’s an interesting exercise to ponder this article several days away from its publication. I wrote about it on Tuesday. You can read it all over again but probably best not. It took me 1500 to react to the first paragraph. So let’s see if we can get through the rest...
by Anne Kennedy | Mar 24, 2020 | Abortion, Biblical Illiteracy, Roman Catholics, The Gospel, U.S. Politics
Rusty Reno, over at First Things, has been digging himself in for the last week, about how the church, and now even the government, should be handling this thing—this thing, of course, being an illness that is sweeping across the world, an illness that one can spread...
by Tim Fountain | Mar 1, 2020 | Academia, Apostasy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, U.S. Politics
Image from AdWeek When we use the term theocracy, we don’t mean that God takes an office in some capitol city and runs things. We mean that we’ve surrendered to the assumption that God makes a select group of people wise and moral enough to organize our...
by Mark Marshall | Feb 11, 2020 | Abortion, Anglicans, Roman Catholics, Sexuality, U.S. Politics
In 1983, the American hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church was faced with a quandary. Most of them had conflicting allegiances politically. They opposed abortion, but at the same time, they supported the Democrat Party – an increasingly pro-abortion Democrat Party....
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