Seeking to cover the nakedness of actual wrongdoing is the heart of the American dilemma today. And there’s a word for this behavior: “Enabling.”
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There's a double standard on pastors and politics
In this momentous year of presidential politics, COVID-19 and racial reckoning, it’s time for Christians to reclaim a message that is biblical — whether it appears political or not. Politicians should not be the ones defining what is a biblical view, and neither should church members who just want to avoid being challenged in their biases.
How the expectation gap creates trauma for white evangelicals
I’ve finally figured out why so many white evangelical Christians are so angry and claim they are being persecuted in America today. And it turns out we have something in common I hadn’t previously understood.
Racists don't get to determine who's racist
When someone frequently has to tell you how they are ‘not a racist’ or ‘not a bigot’ or ‘not sexist,’ there’s a pretty good chance they actually are those things.
In America's culture wars, the Golden Rule is no longer enough
Sadly, it seems America’s cultural divide has reached such a bitter impasse that the Golden Rule no longer applies. We’ve short-circuited it by jumping to the conclusion that “others” are not like us enough for the Golden Rule to apply.
Remembering Ed McAteer and the Jerusalem embassy
Unless a face-to-face with Jesus has straightened out his theology or his politics — or both — Ed McAteer no doubt was smiling down from heaven this week as the United States relocated its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. No religious figure worked harder for such an outcome than McAteer, who died in 2004 at the age of 78.
What happened to my old Kentucky home?
Anyone who’s been paying attention shouldn’t be surprised by the motion adopted at the Kentucky Baptist Convention annual meeting Nov. 14 to consider expelling all churches in dual alignment with the state convention and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. What’s surprising, in fact, is that the issue of dual alignment hasn’t been forced in more places already.