Broken Not Crushed life as a statement, not an apology

Rusty at Evangelicals for Social Action was gracious enough to respond to me and to print my letter in their publication. Here is his response: Hi Christian, It was very good of you to write, and to cause me to rethink the way I wrote that article. I did find myself allied more with the poor [...]

the dutiful Wheaton-trained philosopher in me just CAN’T get past the poor argumentation, the emotional appeals, and the lack of principled reasoning in their writing. Example? This article I just read from Evangelicals for Social Action (Ron Sider et al), about “mountaintop removal”. (Incidentally, this is the same issue that Brian McLaren used to kick [...]

There is a reason that our very first amendment in our Bill of Rights is freedom of speech.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…”

There is zero wiggle room there for “hate speech” laws. The Founders understood that people should be responsible for their actions, that violence can be legislated against, but that speech is sacred and worthy of protection, via violence (Second Amendment) if necessary.

“For socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism today, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to Heaven from earth but to set up Heaven on earth.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamozov I [...]