Category: Religion
Christian Democrats Want Something Different
Christian Democrats are far more moderate than Democrats who identify as atheists, agnostics, and “nones.” Digging into data from Pew Research Center, I want to show how disparate these two groups are in their voting...
No, Most Christians Are Not Planning to Vote for Trump
Allow me to dispel a myth. It is simply not the case that the majority of Christians intend to vote for Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election. This was news to me too. The...
Why Do We Love Our Enemies?
God has given us a command to “love our enemies.” But because the command is from God, we must believe it is not only a command to be blindly followed; it must also be, somehow,...
Love Stoops
Love is not a virtue unique to Christianity. The Greeks abided matters of love, and so did the Jews, and the Eastern dynasties, and nearly all the civilizations of antiquity found value in it. But...
Why the World Still Needs the Church
The critics are right; the church is broken. Nowhere is this reality more apparent than in disputes about what the Bride of Christ actually is. An institution or a relationship? A means for spirituality or...
The Innate Knowledge of More
The question is usually posed in moments of sadness and desperation. It is spoken ruefully, tragically, and yet points to an intrinsic hope—sometimes only the slightest sliver of hope. “Is this all there is?” That...
‘I Would Rather Die Than Hate You.’
Martin Luther King, Jr., knew love isn’t just a means of redeeming our enemies; it’s a way of redeeming ourselves. Hatred can only lead to more hatred, but by injecting love, the chain of hatred...
How Do We Love Our Enemies?
Martin Luther King, Jr., said that Jesus’ command to “love your enemies” is “an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization.” But how do we love our enemies? King gives us three ways. Look...
London Leads UK in Prayer. But Only 1 in 10 Brits Prayed for Brexit.
The Bible repeatedly teaches the value of regular prayer. “Pray continually,” Paul tells the church in Thessalonica. Pray “in every situation,” he advises the church in Philippi. And to the church in Colossi he says,...
Do We Really Want to Be Saved?
Do we actually even want to be saved, in the sense of being freed from the dominion of sin? – Marguerite Shuster, professor at Fuller Seminary, in a 2015 Christianity Today story. It is a...