As Roger Olson has shown, "the best of modern thought," not the Bible, is the authority for liberal theology. This explains why liberal theology must always change and why it has nothing to offer of its own. But is this mindset infecting evangelical and "conservative" churches?
Reagan's Civil Service director says that the controversy over the DOGE reforms is based on two competing views of the federal bureaucracy: Wilson's "expert leadership model" vs. Carter's "political management" model.
Crossway is updating the English Standard Version of the Bible. The changes are minimal, though a few are interesting. Nevertheless, there are a couple of additional changes that I'd like to see.
Pro-life laws are saving lives after all. The Mafia's complaints. And Iran doesn't want to be "provocative.
Gen. Flynn is accusing "Lutherans" of money laundering and Elon Musk is siccing the DOGEs on Lutheran charities that take government money.
Is it better to shut down big government operations or try to use big government operations to impose the conservative cause?
Yesterday we discussed a theological and ethical concept called the "ordo amoris," the order of love. I would like to offer a Lutheran take on the concept by bringing in what the Catholic version lacks: the doctrine of vocation.
Scripture tells us to love our neighbors. But how do we prioritize all of the neighbors that we have? Vice President J. D. Vance answered the question in a distinctly Catholic way by drawing on the "ordo amoris" of St. Thomas Aquinas. But the Bible and St. Augustine go much further.
Sometimes we Christians approach the Bible like any other book, reading it as we would a novel or a blog post. But, as Alastair Roberts points out, is not like any other book, and we must read it in a different way for a different purpose.
Do we really want Gaza? How can tariffs help our economy? Slashing the government.
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