Last week was a hard week for our nation. I haven’t sat watching the news, fighting tears swelling in my eyes, since Hurricane Katrina. But, in that case, my tears were over a natural tragedy. …
I am not a person who listens to a lot of Contemporary Christian Music. For perhaps four years in my late teens/early twenties, I listened exclusively to that genre, primarily reflecting my fresh faith and …
For good or ill—and I think it was almost exclusively good—I grew up in a small country church that was disconnected from the broader Christian culture. I did not grow up listening to Christian music. …
Protestant Christians observe two important anniversaries the last week of October. Protestants recognize October 31 as the anniversary of the formal beginning of the Protestant Reformation or Reformations in Europe. This annual observance commemorates the …
It was May of 2014, and I was staying Memorial Day weekend at All Saints of America Orthodox Church in De Queen, AR. I woke up early Saturday morning to take a day trip. I …
Private Hugh White stamped his feet and rubbed his hands together to warm them in the blistering cold of a March evening in Boston. Snow blanketed the ground around the Custom House he was tasked …
I had an academic project where I looked at images of Jesus, specifically five evangelical Christs, and discussed how they reflect evangelical beliefs. This essay is an adaptation of that research. Evangelicalism is not a …
There are typically three different philosophies about ethics: virtue ethics, duty ethics (deontology), and pragmatic ethics (consequentialism). Pragmatic ethics is the idea that the ethical validity of a position or action is based on the …
Rise of the Moral Majority I was youthful and apolitical in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and I listened to almost every gospel program on the radio. As a member of a heterodox Christian …
In 2016, then-future President Donald John Trump gave a speech in Sioux Center, Iowa, that would define not only his presidential campaign but the next four years of his time in office. He could shoot …