the long way home (coming soon)

[This is a repost of the last in a series of articles I wrote about a year-and-a-half ago exploring my struggles with the idea of America as a "Christian Nation" (it is not; read more here)and how my Christian faith should influence my politics.  Where I ended up is a very helpful place, I believe, [...]

This is the last video I’ll post for a while.  I’ve written an actual post I’ll put up tonight or tomorrow, but I couldn’t resist putting this up.  This is the Bishop of Durham of the Church of England speaking on the relationship of faith and politics in an ever increasing secular global community.  I [...]

(I’m just going to pick up right where the previous post left off.  If you want the overall point, jump to the bottom of the post.)
My exploration of motives for Christian involvement in politics began to shift when I realized that the same Paul and Peter that preached a political worldview of simply obeying the [...]

“Damn it . . .”
That’s what I said the other night upon seeing the movie “Amazing Grace” for the first time.  As most of you probably know, the movie is about William Wilberforce’s life-long fight to end the British slave-trade, which he eventually did.  The reason curses fell from my lips after this display of [...]

This is my second draft of this post.  I just deleted everything I had written so as to start fresh.  I struggle with how to express all these ideas and they seem to evolve every day anyway the more I think through them.  My first draft of this post was making a list of all [...]

I’m scared I’m going to make a lot of people mad with these.
This is Part 1 of 4.
Everyone who knows me knows I’ve been in this re-evaluative angst recently concerning the place of Christianity in the public sphere.  It happens every four years.  I go crazy for a bit going to various extremes only to [...]