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The Right Concept is Worldview
We’re all believers in some kind of story and we all see ourselves as characters in that story. And whether you get your story from the Bible, Karl Marx, or from some other place or places, you’re still trying to tell a story. You’re still trying to tell the story of how you view the world. And you can only view the world from outside the world, and the only way to get outside the world is to adopt a perspective–a view–of the world that is, in the end, religious.
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All Politics Are Religious
A former Speaker of the House and congressman from Massachusetts, Tip O’Neill, is known for, among other things, coining the phrase, “all politics is local.” As a writer for FiveThirtyEight points out, this isn’t really the case, at least not all the time. However, the underlying principle of what O’Neill was saying is probably true: […]
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How I Got Here
The story of how I came to occupy the intellectual space that I do is–to be honest–bizarre. Of course, the story of how Joseph came to be the viceroy of Egypt is bizarre, too. It begins with a spoiled teenager who’s sold into slavery, which leads to hard work, prison, female-on-male sexual aggression, familial conflict, […]
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Introduction
The greatest threat to the Christian Church–its mission, the unity of its members on which that mission relies, and its public existence through which that mission is accomplished–is the contemporary socio-political establishment.
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USA Today Calls Taiwan a “democratically-governed part of China” and Why That’s Important
In a story published Wednesday, June 29, 2022, USA Today White House correspondent, Francesca Chambers, called Taiwan a “democratically-governed part of China.” Although the main topic of the story was President Joe Biden’s actions at the now concluded NATO summit held in Madrid, Spain, the article closes with brief remarks on how the policy direction […]
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