Category: Ethics

Thinking out loud about why the Planned Parenthood video is so disturbing, and why it might finally move a nation, or at least those citizens with hearts, to stand and fight for our children. We learned from the video that Planned Parenthood sells the body parts of aborted babies. They take pains not to crush…

Perhaps the most serious long-term consequence of the new shift on homosexual practice is how many Christians are misreading Scripture. If the Bible can be read to support homosexual practice—or at least not condemn it—then what can’t we make the Bible say? There is no teaching that can’t be explained away or reinterpreted for today.…

Here are my initial, unformed thoughts on something I’ve observed in the past week. I figure a blog is a good place to share this in the hope that others would add to or correct my first draft. I have been struck by our cultural leaders’ lack of sympathy for the religious perspective. Last Sunday…

Last Friday the Supreme Court expanded marriage, at least for now, to any two consenting adults. As Justice Roberts noted in his dissent, the court offered no reason why gender doesn’t matter but the number does. If the court is consistent, it will legalize polygamy the next time a polygamist sues. Much has already been…

A lot of us have been thinking the last couple of days about how our culture came to be where it is. The religious freedom piece may be the most important, but for now I want to focus on how our society came to believe that homosexual activity and changing one’s gender are perfectly natural…

For the second week this month, the Grand Rapids Press posted an editorial on LGBT issues. The last one declared it was a disgrace that Michigan hadn’t yet made LGBT a protected class, and yesterday’s appealed for calm and a conversation. Here’s the backstory. After an owner of an auto shop brazenly (and sinfully) said…

This is the final post of a five part series. Like today’s coerced obedience to the state religion of “tolerance,” so Rome demanded that its citizens show their allegiance to the empire by worshiping the deity of dead emperors and the “genius” of the living emperor (“genius” was loosely defined, somewhere between an external soul…

This is part four of a five part series. A third lesson from Tertullian’s Apology is that he didn’t merely defend the Christians from Roman calumnies but he aggressively put the Romans back on their heels. For instance, the Romans accused the Christians of committing incest, but Tertullian noted there is a better chance that…

This is the third post in a five part series. The second lesson to learn from Tertullian’s Apology is that character counts. A recurring theme in the Apology is that Rome was hurting itself by hurting the Christians, who were its best and most loyal citizens. Tertullian said the Christians contribute to the empire by…