by Kevin Bauder | Nov 3, 2016 | America, Christianity, Economics, Ethics, Evangelicalism, How the Left Thinks, Marriage, Politics, Religious Freedom
Somehow I’ve ended up on the email list for Soulforce, probably the leading professedly Christian LGBTQ advocacy organization. This is from their latest appeal: With Election Day just over a week away, the Religious Right is attempting to mobilize voters who...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 2, 2016 | America, Open Letter, Politics, Religious Freedom
Central Seminary avoids taking political positions on this blog. We discuss theological developments. Sometimes, however, the two overlap. That’s the case with a recent open letter sent by Black church leaders to Hillary Clinton. It’s a hard-hitting...
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 20, 2016 | Accountability, Christianity, Missions, Religious Freedom
The government has a new reporting system on religious activities that is aimed at teachers and parents. Read about it here.
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 18, 2016 | Conservatism, Liberalism, Marriage, Religious Freedom
According to Anthony Esolen, it’s not just a war over pronouns, but over reality. Read him here. The sexual revolution always has been a war waged against the ordinary family, against the ordinary ways of men and women and children. The moral law as regards sex...
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...
