Reflections on Baird vs. Hart and the 1788 Westminster Standards I recently listened to the debate between Pastor James Baird and Dr. D.G. Hart on the Grace at the Gates podcast, titled “Should the Government Promote Christianity?” It’s a worthwhile exchange, and both men are serious thinkers. But I walked away convinced that neither one …
Category Archives: Politics
Event: R2K Book Study
Tis the season for presidential elections! I make no apologies for the fact that I exploit the fervor in such a time to introduce my friends to political theology that I’ve found helpful. As such… I’ll be hosting a very efficient book study that will meet only twice over the next month+. We’ll meet once …
Capital Punishment and the Christian
The death penalty has been a rightly contentious political and moral issue in our country for at least the last 50 years. Christians rightly struggle with the question of taking the life a fellow image bearer even when that person has done something as heinous as murder. Questions of justice come into play when the …
Licking Wine From the Street
My wife once told me a story from A Tale of Two Cities. It took place in a small village outside of Paris in the late 18th century. The French Revolution had not yet begun, and the townspeople were living under oppressive poverty. One day a large cask of wine was being unloaded from a …
Dave Rubin: No longer a “progressive”…
Dave Rubin (you should look him up) is a popular liberal you-tuber, pod-caster and media figure who has been syndicated by The New York Times, Time Magazine and Huffington Post. In a video recently published by Dennis Prager’s PragerU, Rubin gave a helpful appeal to “progressives” to return to their classical liberal roots. I think that …
Dr. Russell Moore | “Can the Religions Right Be Saved?” – First Things: Erasmus Lecture
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