by Kevin Bauder | Oct 28, 2016 | Art and Literature, Ethics
C. R. Wiley asks, “Is Horror Fiction Immoral?” The answer is a bit surprising. “The horror genre may be the most morally-structured popular literary form we have.” Well, maybe.
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 27, 2016 | America, Culture, Ecclesiology, Ethics, Evangelicalism, Politics
Andrew T. Walker of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Commission on Ethics and Religious Liberty says no in an essay entitled “The Impossibility of the Apolitical Church.” I have to be very clear about something: The church that insists on calling...
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 | Alumni, Conservatism, Ethics, Homiletics
Joel Zartman says that we do, partly because we cannot trust ourselves. Read the whole thing at Unknowing. Which is why you need rhetoric. You have to be conscious of it if you want to do it at all well, unless you naturally do it well. It requires consideration, and...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 19, 2016 | Conservatism, Economics, Ethics
Albert Mohler offers “Twelve Theses for a Christian Understanding of Economics.” Read them at the Washington Times. Some economic systems treat the idea of private property as a problem. But Scripture never considers private property as a problem to be...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 18, 2016 | Education, Ethics, Religious Freedom
We often hear that we should not impose our beliefs upon others. In ways we agree with that statement–and in ways we do not. Ryan Dueck is not a fundamentalist. He is not even a conservative. He is a liberal writing for a liberal publication. But he has some...
