Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
A Christian View of Government Shutdown
Joel Arnold Writing about the government shutdown is automatically controversial. If you’re a conservative, it was the democrats fault; if you lean toward the left, the GOP did it; if you’re a libertarian it should have happened sooner and needs to last longer; if you’re in politics, it might cost you your job. But here…
Read MoreThe Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex ‘Marriage’
The Eclectic Web, June 28, 2013 Leading off the Eclectic Web today is an excellent piece by Al Mohler of Southern Seminary in Louisville: “Waiting for the Other Shoe” — The Supreme Court Rules on Same-Sex Marriage The Christian church does not ask the U. S. Supreme Court, or any other human court, what marriage…
Read MoreThe Eclectic Web–2013.3.28
News of interest or oddity collected in recent rovings around the net. Relevance – we need to be ‘with it’, don’t we? Searching for one-size-fits-all religion As I mentioned before, I’m not religious. If I were, however, I think I’d have something more important to worry about than God’s relevance to me. I’d worry about…
Read MoreComments on government debt
David Potter With the current debates going on in Congress about raising the debt ceiling and other measures with regard to the US debt, reference to ancient wisdom on such matters would serve us well. “The … borrower is servant to the lender”–Proverbs 22:7. The biggest US creditor is the People’s Republic of China, our…
Read MoreThe Eclectic Web–2013.01.17
Eclectic: “composed of elements drawn from various sources” (M-W Thesaurus). The Eclectic Web is the fruit of your editor’s wanderings around the web and is offered as a matter of possible interest to others. Persecution: Islamic extremism dominates persecution list “Eight of the top 10 persecutors of Christians — and 24 of the top 30…
Read MoreAround the Web–Nov 16, 2012
Religious freedom, tolerance, free speech: In Canada, a ‘watershed’ religious freedom win Matters of morality, including the perceived morality of certain types of sexual behavior, are topics for discussion in the public forum. Freedom of speech does not just protect polite speech. Hopefully this is the end of this particular case, but if the complainant…
Read MoreReflections on the Election
Or, one more blow to the dead horse! Doug Wright I must confess that I did not expect to have to write this note. Oh, I had planned to address the election, but I was going to write something about the difference between a Christian and a Conservative. Instead, I was as surprised by the…
Read MoreAround the Web–Post Election and other news
The Election Do People Really Vote with Their Wallets? The New Moral Majority and the 2012 Election Michael Kruger (of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC) with a very insightful perspective (in my opinion): “The reality is that America has changed drastically since the 1990’s. It’s hard to believe that the Defense of Marriage act…
Read MoreThe Gospel Is What Really Matters
John C. Vaughn God uses crises to redirect our lives. Bad news can open hearts to the Good News. The economy, the election, the erosion of the collective will of the West to face the threats to its future should wake us up to what we should have been doing all along and what we…
Read MoreNotes on the Election for Believers
Doug Wright Today we have a privilege that is a rarity in history – voting. The relatively brief American History of involving the populace in the selection of our leaders is all that we have ever known. It is, however, not the norm of history. Dictators, kings, groups (of various origin), and even anarchy dominate…
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