Is it unusual I carry a Bible when I'm not a pastor?
I dream of a day when carrying a Bible in public is as commonplace and accepted as wearing shoes and shirts in a restaurant.
Peter Demos
Op-ed contributor
Protesting isn't free: Civil disobedience versus entitlement
Exercise your right to protest when you feel led to do so, but be prepared to deal with the consequences, be they just or unjust.
Christian civil disobedience in world that’s gone woke
Would you be willing to go to jail for using the wrong pronouns?
Christians, here is how we must respond to the Twitter files
However, that is not a strategy that will suffice. Hope is actually no strategy at all. So how should people of faith respond to this latest information?
There’s no such thing as a fake Christian
If we really want to get down to brass tacks, by definition, a “fake Christian” is not a Christian at all. You either believe Jesus is the son of God or you don’t. You cannot fake the condition of your heart.
The Christian’s test for civil disobedience
Christian civil disobedience transcends political civil disobedience as Christians serve a Kingdom that is outside the realm of politics and recognizes that justice, outside of a biblical framework, is inherently unjust. As St. Aquinas and Augustus state, an unjust law is no law. Although our response may be to political or legal pressures, it can also be a response to cultural pressures as well.
Good leaders gone bad: What we can learn from fallen Christians
Still, as a former faith skeptic who once, I am ashamed to say, reveled when fallen Christians faced public demise, I am all too familiar with how eager the world is to point to the mistakes of Believers as proof that our faith is null and our God is void.
Beauty from ashes: How Christians can honor God in 2021
Will we allow God to make beauty from our ashes and trust His character no matter what tomorrow brings?
