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This is Your Wake-Up Call

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This is not the first time that a needed wake-up call has been delivered by a gruesome mailing. Continue Reading »

26 Oct 2015

The Master of Apologies

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While Stephen Sizer has shown himself ready to apologize, he has been unwilling to alter his behavior. It is past time for his church to stop allowing him to plead carelessness as his excuse. 
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2 Feb 2015

The State Finds Against Parson Brown

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Complainants, a same sex couple, alleged that they were unlawfully discriminated against when Respondent refused to perform their marriage. Continue Reading »

17 Dec 2014

The Church of England and Moral Hazard

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The Church of England should carefully considering the consequences for Middle Eastern Christians and Jews of a conference like the one the Vicar of Christ Church attended in Tehran Continue Reading »

8 Oct 2014

The Difference Three Percent Makes

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According to the Planned Parenthood, just 3 percent of its services are abortion related. So why are so many clinics closing? Continue Reading »

15 Jul 2014

Rightly Dividing the Wrong Side of History

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To determine the crux of a contemporary issue, we must first determine the crux of history. Continue Reading »

19 Jun 2014

C. S. Lewis on Friendship

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C. S. Lewis writes, “Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.” The same could be said of Twitter. Continue Reading »

21 May 2014

Tradition as a Source of Vintage Identity

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Are Evangelicals adopting tradition for its style or substance? Continue Reading »

4 Apr 2014

What Hath Mozilla to Do with Hobby Lobby?

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As exasperating as it is to see self-professed open-minded, tolerant people try to propel out of their orbit anyone they judge intolerant, it is still legal and constitutional. Continue Reading »

2 Apr 2014

The Passion of Christ in Psalm 23

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A Scriptural Compilation Continue Reading »

13 Mar 2014
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