The Empire comes home to end the Republic

February 7, 2012/

The latest commentary from constitutional attorney, John W. Whitehead. Black Hawks in Boston: The American Military Empire Comes Home I often wonder whether...

How one Christ follower decided to vote for Ron Paul, Part 3: Abortion

December 20, 2011/

To catch up on this series you can read the first part, and the second part. When writing on the subject of abortion,...

How one Christ follower decided to vote for Ron Paul, Part 2: Foreign Policy

December 19, 2011/

My last post chronicled how I changed from being a dyed-in-the-wool Republican to an Independent who supports Ron Paul for president. In this...

How one Christ follower decided to vote for Ron Paul, Part 1

December 16, 2011/

A long time ago in a lifetime far, far away, I was a Republican. I stood in line for an hour or so–and...

The National Defense Authorization Act of 2012: No more rule of law

December 15, 2011/

“All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined… could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track...

Wise words on discipleship

November 18, 2011/

This is something Sonya, my wife, posted on her Facebook this week. I thought it pretty profound, and thoroughly biblical. (For those of...

When injustice is enough justice: Parsing theology into nothingness

November 17, 2011/

Part of this post deals with the terrible situation at Penn State University that broke in recent days. Because my website crashed and...

The gospel and the social

November 14, 2011/

I recently spent a couple of hours watching the Al Mohler/Jim Wallis debate at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School’s Henry Center for Theological Understanding....