by Kevin Bauder | Jan 31, 2017 | Christianity, Evangelicalism, How the Left Thinks
Teresa Oelke at National Review explains how “Progressive Christians” are willing to sacrifice the lives of the unborn to secure their Leftist agenda. But as the women’s march has come to a close and Friday’s March for Life approaches, recent Sojourners...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 30, 2017 | Christian Liberty, Christianity, Education, Evangelicalism, Institutions, Islam
J. Daryl Charles argues that the firing of Larycia Hawkins had nothing to do with her hijab and everything to do with her theology. The essay asks: Ultimately, do American Christians have the theological and moral backbone to stand firm in the midst of cultural...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 25, 2017 | Christianity, Evangelicalism, Separation, The Gospel, Theology
What is a gospel issue? How do we recognize one when we see it? D. A. Carson addresses the problem in an insightful essay for Themelios. Here’s one side of the story; it’s worth reading the other: [B]ecause of the complex entanglements of theology, with a...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 20, 2017 | Christianity, Conservatism, Culture, Death and Dying, Memorials, Tributes
David Oestreich passed away on Wednesday after a brief stay in the hospital. A resident of northwestern Ohio, Oestreich was still a young man with a young family. He was one of the most important voices of his generation for conservative Christianity. A poet, critic,...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 20, 2017 | Art and Literature, Christianity, Culture, Library, Library Tips, Poetry
Cosmophagy is a book of nature poems by David Oestreich. Here’s the blurb on the jacket: If you sit up at night thinking about leaves realizing “they’re each alone / and out on a limb,” or wait for “each day to be sliced in half”...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 18, 2017 | Baptists, Catholicism, Christianity, Church History, Reformation, Religious Freedom, Tolerance
During the English Reformation Catholics burned Anglicans and Anglicans burned Catholics. Now the Archbishop of Canterbury has decided it’s time to express remorse. Apparently, plenty of people in the UK find this gesture pretty ridiculous. Perhaps it’s...
