Two days ago I published an article entitled, “Is the Tea Party a ‘Social Justice’ Movement?”  One point of the article was to point to the ambiguities in the concept of social justice; but it also contended that the Tea Party movement is no less noble in its intentions than many liberal political movements that are anointed with the ‘social justice’ oil. Philip Clayton is kind enough to engage my article here.  Clayton holds the Ingraham Chair of Theology at... Read more

Kevin DeYoung shares the notes of Mark Dever from a Sovereign Grace Pastor’s Conference last year.  They really are worth reading in full, but I wanted to excerpt the following two paragraphs, since they hold together a properly biblical suspicion toward wealth and a sense of the superior importance of the inward transformation of the individual through the gospel of Christ, over and beyond social justice ministries.  Too often a commitment to evangelistic ministries over social justice ministries is accompanied... Read more

When I woke up on the morning of April 14th, I began to feel, with an increasingly strong conviction, that I should go attend the Tea Party Rally that was scheduled to be held in the Boston Commons that morning.  So, after dropping off my daughter and rearranging some of my morning plans, I made the trip.  What kind of self-respecting writer for a website on religion would avoid a Tea Party rally?  The Tea Party was being discussed in... Read more

Seth Godin runs one of the most highly trafficked blogs on the internet.  Today he offers a reflection for entrepreneurs (h/t David Murray), but I think it applies for anyone who has a dream.  There is a difference, he says, between entrepreneurial hope – the kind of hope that will work through the long slog to build a company or realize a dream step by tiny step – and the hope of the magical lottery ticket, landing the big fish... Read more