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Mass Shootings and the Church’s Opportunity in Confronting the American Male Mindset

August 5, 2019

Saturday’s mass shooting in El Paso is an unmitigated tragedy. What we know at this point is that, once again, a shooter was guided by a naked white supremacy and […]

Is Polyamory on the Horizon in American Culture?

July 29, 2019

Even before the Supreme Court exercised raw judicial power and wrongly redefined marriage, social conservatives predicted that removing the conjugal (or complementary) basis of marriage would leave marriage open to further redefinition. Their warnings were met with scorn by progressives, who believed that conservative fears were unfounded.

Critical theory and Christian ethics: can they co-exist?

May 16, 2019

On May 15, The Gospel Coalition published a very good essay by Neil Shenvi arguing that critical theory is incompatible with Christianity. Considering the level of confusion and the accusations […]

Can weaponry be humane?

May 13, 2019

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on a new piece of weaponry that the United States military has developed. The sophistication of the new missile—the R9X—is breathtaking. In short, […]

Mayor Pete’s God-talk and Selective Outrage

May 3, 2019

One of the rules of modern discourse is to keep God, or religious-based argument, out of the arena of politics. Because we’re a country conditioned by an ahistorical interpretation of […]

ETS Paper: On Creation, Revelation, and the Meaning of Male and Female

This afternoon I will participate in a moderated discussion on the Nashville Statement alongside Denny Burk, Preston Sprinkle, and Joel Willitts here at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological […]

2018 Research Institute Meeting: Baptist Identity and Public Witness

Each year, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission hosts an annual meeting of its Research Institute. In years past, we’ve had a range of topics and presenters. From Ken Myers […]

What David Foster Wallace can teach us about religious liberty and the pursuit of truth

Today, September 12, 2018, marks the tenth anniversary of writer David Foster Wallace’s tragic suicide. It is arguable that Wallace was this generation’s most unique and extraordinary writer. He was […]

Carl Henry on Social Justice and Christian Responsibility to the Social Order

There is a critical error in evangelical thought at present: An uncritical embrace of social justice and a heavy-handed disavowal of social justice. The task for Christians is to approximate […]

Friendship and Moral Judgment

Over the weekend, my friend Jonathan Merritt posted the following to Twitter: THREAD: This quote from one of my favorite theologians explains why I don’t engage with a lot of […]