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“Them’s fightin’ words!” That is one typical reaction folks can get if they start talking about Christian nationalism. It certainly can generate a fair amount of controversy and robust debate. And the topic can mean different things to different people. Some hate it, some love it, and some have no clue what it is all about.
...It was Churchill who once quipped that ‘Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried’. One might say similar things about the West. It is of course far from perfect, but compared to so much of the rest of the world, the West has been one of the great and long-standing experime...
Well over 60 years of social science data have told us what we know – or should know – instinctively: children do best when raised by their own mother and father. The mountain of evidence on this is conclusive: overwhelmingly children raised in a two-parent home cemented by heterosexual marriage fare the best and have the best chances ...
With America and Israel – along with some Western allies and even some Arab/Muslim states – moving full steam ahead to rid the beleaguered Iranian population of the hated tyrannical Islamist regime, there is again a lot of discussion about notions of ‘regime change’ and the like.
There are many ways to assess this issue...
The renowned theologian Karl Barth famously spoke of the need of the believer to hold a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other. But he also insisted that it was the Bible that should be used to help us understand the events recorded in the daily news, and not the other way around.
My own website of course has taken ...