If you have been assuming that your support of the agenda of the global warming alarmist crowd puts you on the side of the angels, take a minute to consider an articulate and well-reasoned alternative from a member of the European academic community. Could it be that those angels you are supporting are actually fallen angels?
Category: Public Square
Creation Care and Evangelical Christians
Evangelical Christians often tend to be followers of cultural trends rather than shapers of them. This charge has been leveled frequently against believers with conservative political views but our friends on the evangelical left are not immune to this phenomenon. An excellent example is the headlong rush of many evangelicals to embrace “creation care” which turns out to be the secular environmentalist agenda dressed up in religious garb.
Consistently Pro-Life … A Good Friend’s Thoughts
My good friend Marty Martin wrote me an in-depth response to my posting about Ron Sider and the issue of whether evangelical Christians are consistently pro-life. Marty’s musings were long enough that it seemed beyond what he could reasonably post as a comment so he sent it to me via email so I’ve posted it here.
Getting Reacquainted with Ron Sider
I’m reading a recent book by Ron Sider which is entitled The Scandal of Evangelical Politics: Why Are Christians Missing the Chance to Really Change the World? He thinks that believers should oppose smoking as strongly as they oppose abortion. Can he really be this confused? Is there really a similarity between an act chosen by an adult that may shorten that adult’s own life and an act chosen by an adult that ends the life of a child immediately and violently?
Is Jimmy Carter Promoting an American Theocracy?
Jimmy Carter wants the U. S. Government to adopt the peace ethic of Jesus. Where are the howls of protest about seperation of church and state?