The Notion of “Rights” in Secular America

Human rights are foundational to a free society.  In America our government derives authority from the consent of the governed.  Such consent presupposes that the governed themselves have rights upon which they can act as autonomous people. The way this plays out in many modern day political issues is really interesting.  To say humans have [...]

“Think Christianly” – A Review

Zondervan sent me a free copy of Jonathan Morrow’s Think Christianly for review.  The book can be purchased here.  Any parenthetical page numbers refer to this book unless otherwise noted. _______________________________________ For my first term paper in seminary, I wrote a strategy paper for planting a church in Stockholm, Sweden.  I hand-picked this city because it [...]

Evangelical Compromise: Mitt Romney and Liberty University

As some of you know, I have spent the past year working on my MA in Religion through Liberty Seminary.  I’m an online student, so I haven’t had to visit the campus.  But I graduate this May, and Liberty makes no distinction between online and traditional students.  Thus, my commencement is exactly the same as [...]

Activists in Conflict: Diversity and Gay Rights

Dr. Frank Turek recently visited Ohio University to present one of his popular “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist” seminars.  Turek, who is opposed to gay marriage, incited opposition. The problem stems from the fact that OU offers funding to recognized student organizations (such as Ratio Christi) to hold events.  These funds, [...]

Defending an Atheist

Atheists in this country have made satire their friend.  Whether it’s Bill Maher’s roasts of religion, or the late Christopher Hitchens’ witty one-liners, atheism has enrolled humor in its debate with religion. One atheist, Ernest Pearce, decided to dress up like a zombie Muhammad while his friend dressed up like a zombie pope for a [...]

The Collapse of Education, the Family, and Morality

It is a sure sign of moral decay in society when teachers, those entrusted by large segments of society with indoctrinating instilling moral values in our children, fail to walk by even basic standards of morality.  I’m speaking of James Hooker (that’s really his name, though it applies to him in other senses) and Jordon Powers. [...]

The Peculiar Case of Dakota Cochrane

Ultimate Fighter contestant Dakota Cochrane represents a good case study in the major point of contention between Evangelical Christians and gay rights activists.  This is so primarily because of his past in gay porn.  Cochrane has said he is not gay, he just did it for the money.  He now regrets this decision, he says. [...]

Potential Persons and Being “Mere” Matter

As you may have gathered from my blog yesterday, I have fairly strong opinions regarding the issue of abortion.  Today I want to lay down the TKO toward the pro-choice position.  I’m going to do this by first considering a world in which God exists (the actual world), and then a world in which God [...]

(Un)Ethically-Driven Absurdity

Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva have published a paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics arguing that it is acceptable to abort children after they have been born.  I haven’t been able to access the article, because 1 day access costs $30.00, but a few points need to be kept in mind. First, everyone who argues for [...]

Sin-Driven Absurdity

In my last post I aimed my guns at liberals.  Clearly it was a TKO and no reasonable person will remain a standard liberal after reading that.  But it should be noted that conservatives are just as much in trouble here, especially when we consider issues of corporatism.  Consider the following: Individual behavior (same-sex marriage, [...]