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June 20, 2023
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Books

Cultural Contours of a Christian Worldview: A Review of Biblical Critical Theory

by Donald Roth
…clopedic size, Watkin does not offer his book as a comprehensive tome that provides all the answers; instead, he provides a set of tools applied along the horizon set by a Biblical perspective, and he invites others in to observe these concepts in action, then go out and explore where they might apply them. My students found this call to be both bracing and generative for their own thinking, and I recommend it to broader audiences on that ground….
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January 6, 2022
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Essays

Arguers or Lovers?

by Dave Schelhaas
…statements about AIDS are a cover for the homosexual community….Dr. Koop’s proposals for stopping AIDS represent the homosexuals’ views, not those of the pro-family movement.” (qtd. in Yancey 191) But as Yancy writes, Koop won over the gay community “by calling for compassion for the sick among them, and for volunteers to care for them.” (Yancey 202)  “The lesson of Jesus and St. Paul is that lovers, not arguers, are the most effective Christian w…
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June 21, 2017
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Essays

America and Syria’s Christians

by Joel Veldkamp
…ent, free speech, and a chance at benefitting from their country’s growing prosperity. The regime responded with bullets, tanks, and torture. Some Syrian soldiers defected and began helping civilians fight back. By June 2011, Syria was in a civil war. Where Syria’s protestors saw a chance at freedom, the U.S. and its allies saw a chance to change the balance of power in the Middle East. To oversimplify, the main Middle Eastern allies of the U.S.—t…
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September 8, 2017
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Essays

Meet DACA’s Demise with Determination, Not Despair

by Donald Roth
…im sweeping discretion to suspend key federal laws, the entire legislative process becomes little more than a pretense… The circumvention of the legislative process not only undermines the authority of this branch but destabilizes the tripartite system as a whole.” Former-President Obama more or less admitted to this when he voiced his criticism of President Trump’s decision. He cited a long bipartisan interest in helping the people aided by DACA,…
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