Applying biblical truth to social, cultural, political, and theological issues in our world.
"Come see a man who told me all the things that I have done." - John 4:29a (NASB) Nearly two decades after the advent of the first camera phone, selfies remain a thing. It seems everyone from former president Barack Obama to Pope Francis has become enamored with the prospect of taking pictures of the themselves and posting …
Continue reading A Soteriology of Selfies: Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well
A recent CNBC.com article contained an embedded tweet from President Donald Trump that caught my attention. It read: "If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible "carnage" going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the Feds!" In response to this somewhat cryptic presage by our nation's 45th president, Jesse Jackson, …
Much is being said today about the so-called wealth gap that purportedly exists among black households and white households in America. I say purportedly not to deny that such a divide exists - it does - but to highlight that the very term wealth gap is inherently misleading, as it assumes that such imparity is …
Continue reading A Biblical Theology of the Black-White “Wealth Gap”
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