Month: February 2018
The Church and the Refugee
Hear my prayer, LORD, listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. I dwell with you as a foreigner, a stranger, as all my ancestors were. – Psalm 39:12 Isis...
Judges: ICE Can’t Deport 100 Christians to Indonesia (Yet)
This story is published in full at Christianity Today On February 1, a federal judge put a halt to the deportation of about 50 Indonesian Christians living in New Hampshire. The next day, a different...
Writing Tracker – Week 5 (Jan. 28 – Feb. 3)
Writers write. That’s the bottom line. I wrote more last week than in any other week of 2018 so far, despite taking Saturday off. The sum is due in large part to a splurge in...
The Church Is the Best First Responder
The powers and principalities of this world are what they are, and while they can certainly be reformed, we should not expect they can be fully redeemed at this stage of the gospel narrative. As...
Recovering Eden
Eden Strategic Planning Our task in resuscitating the blessed garden of creation is not, firstly, to remove all pain from the world. Sorrow, grief, toil are the new conditions, like moss on all the trees,...
Foreign Policy in President Trump’s State of the Union
Donald Trump is a self-proclaimed “America First” president. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that has translated into a much stronger focus on domestic issues than foreign policy. This is not to say President Trump has no foreign policy,...