by Jeff Straub | May 19, 2017 | Social Issues
Alabama Baptist Convention affiliated Samford University is set to recognize a gay-straight student alliance Samford Together at the recommendation of students and faculty. While not full advocacy of the gay agenda, such an action certainly mutes voices of opposition...
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 | Conservatism, Social Issues
Writing for the Imaginative Conservative, Dwight Longenecker suggests that in a world turned upside down, conservatives are now the subversives. It used to be that to act against these conservative values was to paint oneself as a subversive. The beatnik, the hippie,...
by Kevin Bauder | Feb 2, 2017 | Christianity, Culture, Social Issues
Bruce Frohnen suggests that it took Christianity to civilize humanity. What follows is that the loss of Christianity will result in the loss of civilization. The Culture of Death has been with us for quite some time. It has been fostered by the belief that a...
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...
