Today's coronavirus preoccupation with masks reminds us that God too wears a mask. It's called vocation.
Today's coronavirus preoccupation with masks reminds us that God too wears a mask. It's called vocation.
There are many contending versions of "conservatism." In an article saying that today's conservatives should attend to what Ronald Reagan was trying to protect, rather than just trying to repeat his policies, Nathanael Blake describes the defining purpose of every kind of conservatism.
Presidents usually lead their parties and take them in the direction they want them to go. Joe Biden, though, is having to placate the different factions in his party, even though he defeated them. He would presumably govern in the same way. This is the way Prime Ministers operate in parliamentary democracies, as opposed to the usual role of American presidents.
As in the election of Warren G. Harding in 1920, exactly one hundred years ago, Americans crave a "return to normalcy." Joe Biden would seem to inherit that mantle. But the Democrats may be as disruptive and emotionally-exhausting as Donald Trump. So the normalcy vote is still up in the air.
Abraham Kuyper, with his worldview analysis, gave us Francis Schaeffer, who arguably gave us the Christian right. But Kuyper himself expressed his Biblical worldview with the Christian Democratic movement, which created the European welfare state. If Republicans, conservatives, and Christian activists have to re-invent themselves, might they do so along the lines of Kuyperian politics?
How is it that "coveting" rates inclusion in the Ten Commandments? After all, it doesn't hurt anybody. Actually, as my son-in-law's sermon points out, the prohibition against coveting applies God's Law to the inner condition of the heart. And, because the Bible says that "covetousness is idolatry," it ties back to the First Commandment and demonstrates our need for faith.
Forgiveness in the personal, social, and political realm.
Russia will be interfering in the American election to elect Trump, according to U.S. intelligence, while China and Iran will be interfering in the American election to elect Biden.
America is rightly criticized for its history of slavery. But slavers on an even bigger scale are getting a free pass.
The murder rate is up 24% so far this year, with 3,612 killings. And yet, the rate for other serious crimes is down. What is going on?
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