by Jeff Straub | Jul 16, 2017 | Social Issues
I’m not sure what to make of Peterson’s view on homosexuality. He affirmed homosexuality, reversed his comments, and now his interviewer suggests that, at best, his retraction was disingenuous. This is the worst sort of spiritual confusion. Perhaps Lifeway...
by Jeff Straub | Jul 13, 2017 | Social Issues
“On further reflection and prayer,” (and perhaps great pressure from the internet), popular evangelical author Eugene Peterson retracted his hypothetical willingness to do a gay marriage. “To clarify, I affirm a biblical view of marriage: one man to one...
by Jeff Straub | Jul 13, 2017 | Social Issues
Popular evangelical author Eugene Peterson, in an interview with Jonathan Merritt of Religious News Service, stated that the issue or homosexuality and the church may be over. If he were pastoring today, he would preform same-sex unions. This has caused numerous...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 12, 2017 | Death and Dying, Ethics, Social Issues, World Events
The Central Bureau of Statistics in the Netherlands has posted the numbers for assisted termination of life (deaths due to medical decision) in 2015. The most interesting figure is the one in the upper right hand corner. These are the people whose lives were taken...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 8, 2017 | America, Education, Social Issues
Both reports come from the Chronicle of Higher Education. In an opinion piece, conservative Jonathan Marks defends liberal Lisa Durden, who was fired as the result of a spat over Black activism. Then Sarah Brown reports on Keith Fink’s claim that he was fired...
by Kevin Bauder | Jun 30, 2017 | Islam, Liberalism, Religious Freedom, Social Issues, Tolerance
Writing for the Witherspoon Institute, Ismail Royer responds to Bernie Sanders’s attempt to impose a religious test for public office: such people “are not protecting religious pluralism but are rather demanding that all public servants be...
