by Kevin Bauder | Oct 21, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Religious Freedom
They’re not the same thing, according to Stephanie Russell-Kraft at Religion Dispatches. And conservatives are tilting more and more toward liberty. Political theorist Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, in her 1988 essay “Are Freedom and Liberty Twins?”, wrote that freedom...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 21, 2016 | Catholicism, Christianity, Church Unity, Ecclesiology
Not long ago Peter Leithart asked whether Protestantism had a future. Douglas Wilson didn’t like his answer. The exchange provides some valuable insight as to the nature and boundaries of the church. As Baptists, we would say some different things and say other...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 20, 2016 | Ethics, How the Left Thinks, Liberalism, Marriage
Gerald McDermott is an Anglican professor at Alabama’s Beeson Divinity School. He weighs in on the banning of InterVarsity Press by the Society for Biblical Literature in an essay entitled, “Stranger than Fiction.” Perhaps you notice the disconnect...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 20, 2016 | How the Left Thinks, Liberalism, Marriage, Open Letter
While we have not yet seen a formal announcement from the Society of Biblical Literature, their leadership is supposed to have banned IVP over its recent clarifications on human sexuality. Michael Bird has responded to the SBL leadership in an open letter Fifth, and...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 20, 2016 | Affections, Christianity, Conservatism, Devotion, Theology
According to the Scriptures, neither our emotions nor our experiences provide an adequate foundation for the Christian life. Only the truths of Scripture, understood with the mind and communicated through doctrine, can provide that sure foundation upon which we should...
