Evangelical Amy Coney Barrett and Anti-Catholicism in America The looming nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice has renewed an ugly but persistent tradition in American politics: anti-Catholicism. Since 1517 there have been enduring and fundamental theological divides between Protestants and Catholics about tradition and Scripture, grace and works, the meaning of the Lord’s Supper, and more. Disagreement over theology […] Written by Evangelical History September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Poverty: Jesus, Jubilee, and Reparations Jesus is many things to many people. The Good Shepherd, the Great Physician, the Light of the world. The Alpha and Omega, the Lion and the Lamb, the crucified and risen Savior. If you study Luke’s Gospel, you might notice that among all these images and titles, one specific picture of Jesus rises to the […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Cathedral of the Tropics and Worshipping Through a Pandemic When my wife and I moved to Costa Rica, we began visiting the lush trails of tropical forests on our Sabbath days to listen and worship. In similar ways, the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing people all over the world out of buildings and toward other ways of worshiping on Sunday, giving us a chance to […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Evangelical The God of All Grace When we come to God’s throne, we need to remember He is indeed the God of all grace. He is the landowner who graciously gave a full day’s pay to the workers who had worked only one hour in the vineyard. He is the God who said of the sinful nation of Israel even while […] Written by Paul Tautges September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Communities of Moral Deliberation Like many political scientists, I was surprised when Donald Trump emerged in 2016 as the Republican nominee. Once the nominee, however, I was not surprised that he easily won both my home state of Tennessee (61.1%) and the rural county where I live (78.9%). What I did find shocking, perhaps naively, was that exit polls […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian On Gender Equality: We Have Made Great Strides & We Are Not There Yet To have this conversation with everyone and anyone makes no sense. If you cannot accept that women are equally created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), or that women are called and sent to share the Gospel (as the women at the tomb were on the first Easter) then please stop reading, for this […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Buddhist Dispassion – Options From a practical perspective, the key to ending suffering is to experience all things directly, with dispassion, free of labels, free of the intervention of the ego-mind. The key word is “dispassion.” Why is that key? Because if we don’t view things with dispassion, with equanimity, that means that our emotions are engaged and that […] Written by Ronald Hirsch September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Evangelical Biblical Principles for Grandparenting a Child with a Disability Have you seen the bumper sticker that says, “We’re spending our children’s inheritance”? Parents committed to Scripture should change that slogan to: “Our children are our inheritance” (see Psalm 127:3 KJV). This applies equally to grandparenting. We receive grandchildren from the Lord as an inheritance, and we give them back to our family, church, and […] Written by Paul Tautges September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Comfort My experience of God has been, consistently, that God shows up most fully during our hardest times. For me, God’s presence was tangible during our horrible family crises that started ten years ago and really became more manageable for most of us five years ago. During those first few years, […] Written by Barbara Barkley September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Catholic Starlight He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. Psalm 147:4 “Will you PLEASE come inside now, stargazer!”- was a refrain I would hear often when I was little. I used to spend hours sat in the field behind my house, looking at the stars. A born planner and a born […] Written by Caroline September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Fire in the Sky: On Divisions and Forgiveness “I’ve seen it raining fire in the sky.”- John Denver, Rocky Mountain High Every August, for as long as I can remember, we’ve invited friends to join us in watching the Perseids Meteor Shower. Living high in Rockies, far from city lights, we enjoy amazingly dark skies. Sometimes clouds block the view; sometimes the moon […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Evangelical Did Adam Smith Get “The Wealth of Nations” from the Bible? I am teaching through Isaiah in my adult Sunday school class. History nerd that I am, I perked up in chapters 60 and 61 when the English Standard Version (and other modern translations) repeatedly uses the phrase “the wealth of the nations.” I immediately guessed that this phrase was the origin of Adam Smith’s classic […] Written by Evangelical History September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
