Here is Kenneth Walker, of Louisville, Kentucky: After nearly two and a half years, a person connected with the Louisville Metro Police Department has finally taken some responsibility for the death of my girlfriend, Breonna Taylor. Since March 13, 2020, I have...
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Religion does something that Instagram can’t
Rabbi Juliana Karol gets it right in her letter to The New York Times. She is responding to this piece. . . . Entertainment suppresses the agency of its audience, rendering us passive observers. Faith is just the opposite, demanding...
Teaching Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
This is a revised and updated version of a post originally published on March 6, 2020: After a couple weeks focusing on “creation” in my Created Called for Community (CCC) course at Messiah University, we have shifted gears slightly to focus on the...
Syndicate Symposium: “Sins and Virtues in American Public Life”
Over at “Syndicate,” Dartmouth religion professor Jeremy Sabella has put together a symposium on the Seven Deadly Sins (lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride), the Four Cardinal Virtues (prudence, courage, temperance, and justice), and the theological virtues of...
Court evangelicals on night 3 of the GOP convention
Here is what the Bible-believing, born-again Christians who support Donald Trump are saying today: Let’s start with the Liberty University Falkirk Center crowd: Charlie Kirk believes that the Democrat concern over racial unrest and racial justice is politically motivated: Isn’t...
Engaging with the latest stuff on race and the founders coming from Liberty University’s Falkirk Center
Not all Christian colleges are the same. Some of you may recall a post in which I compared Messiah University to Liberty University. If you have a child considering a faith-based college I encourage you to read that post. Liberty...
*Harper’s Magazine* publishes “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate”
This letter will appear in the October 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine. Signers include Anne Applebaum, Margaret Atwood, David Blight, David Brooks, Noam Chomsky, Gerald Early, David Frum, Francis Fukuyama, Todd Gitlin, Anthony Grafton, David Greenberg, Jonathan Haidt, Michael...
Tonight in the Rose Garden and at St. John’s Church, Trump Announced His 2020 Re-Election Strategy
It’s hard to know where to start writing about what we all just witnessed earlier this evening. Donald Trump was scheduled to speak in the Rose Garden at 6:30pm. Shortly before his speech, Attorney General Bill Barr came out to...
Fleming Rutledge on Advent Hope
“The concept of justice is indeed central to the biblical portrait of the God who has revealed himself in his written Word and in the incarnate Word who is his Son. However, the current use of ‘justice’ as a rallying...