by Kevin Bauder | Feb 6, 2017 | America, Bioethics, Culture, Ethics, How the Left Thinks, Social Issues
Apparently, from now on “boy” scouts may be biological girls, as long as they identify as boys on their applications. This from BSA: Starting today, we will accept and register youth in the Cub and Boy Scout programs based on the gender identity indicated...
by Kevin Bauder | Feb 4, 2017 | America, Ethics, Politics, Religious Freedom, Social Issues
One of my greatest objections to candidate Trump was his threat to ban Muslim immigration. As a Baptist, I believe firmly that religion should never be made a test of legal standing. With President Trump’s immigration ban going into effect, it’s time to...
by Kevin Bauder | Feb 3, 2017 | Ethics
John Schwenkler argues that torture is anti-Christian whether it works or not. Read the essay at First Things. It is a central principle of the Christian ethic that one must not do evil that good may come. That ethic does not require us to ignore the consequences of...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 26, 2017 | Ethics, New Testament, Problem Passages, Social Issues
This is an older treatment, but still useful. Daniel Wallace pinpoints the issues in 1 Timothy 2:12. The force of almost every word in 1 Timothy 2:12 has been debated. This brief paper will lay out the major interpretive issues involved, without commenting on...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 23, 2017 | Ethics, How the Left Thinks, Liberalism
Sojourners worries that “Peaceful Protests Could Be Criminalized In Several U.S. States.” The protests they’re talking about are mobs that block streets and highways. That behavior is not protest, it is extortion. Since one of the states is...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 18, 2017 | Civility, Ethics, New Testament
Touchstone Magazine republishes “An Address to Seminary Students on the Forsaken Art of Christian Judgment.” We have a similar problem here. The passage only says to “never make judgments” if we abruptly stop reading before the passage has finished the...
