Opinion

Civil Liberties 2011: The Year in Review

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January 18, 2012

Constitutional attorney, John Whitehead, is the author of numerous books, including The Second American Revolution and The Change Manifesto and founder of The Rutherford Institute. Whitehead and the Rutherford have long been defenders of religious freedom, those victimized by illegal search and seizure, free speech and the right to life. For those of us long [...]


How one follower of Christ decided to vote for Ron Paul, Part 4: War on Drugs

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January 3, 2012

If Ron Paul’s foreign policy is viewed by some as out of the mainstream, and if his views on the gold standard are misunderstood, it seems his views on decriminalizing drugs and putting an end to the so-called “War on Drugs” are simply opposed. I think much of this opposition is due to a fundamental [...]


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

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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, I somehow feel it necessary to defend myself before I even get started. Not from those with a pro-abortion/pro-choice stand, but from some pro-lifers who seem to have a litmus test of [...]


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

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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 post and the next one, I’ll be writing about some of Ron Paul’s positions that seem most misunderstood or misrepresented: foreign policy The narrative of foreign policy options during the last two [...]


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

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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 was happy to do it–to be able to cast my first presidential vote for Ronald Reagan against the dangerous Walter Mondale. The primary reason he was dangerous, I guess, is because he [...]


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

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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 on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must [...]


When injustice is enough justice: Parsing theology into nothingness

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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 was down for several days I was unable to write a full post and was limited to expressing my outrage on Twitter and a few Facebook status updates. Suffice it to say [...]


The gospel and the social

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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. The resolved was that social justice is integral to the gospel. Wallis took the affirmative, while Mohler, reluctantly in his own admission, took the “no” position. Mohler rightly stated that the term [...]


The new Facebook changes: I like them and how to get Timeline early

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September 24, 2011

Since the end of the world new changes to Facebook were announced this week at the f8 Conference the typical “Why can’t they just leave well enough alone?” mantras have lit up status updates everywhere. (And, as a brief aside, I cannot believe the number of people who are in creative jobs who complain every [...]


Natural disasters and discerning the motives of God

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August 30, 2011

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Luke 17:21

"[N]or will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or 'There!' for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you." (ESV)

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