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February 2012

February 13, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: Dismissing our Opponents

"Dismissiveness implies that their perspective is so dumb that it is not worth your time...

February 06, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: Pamela Geller Abuses a Murder

"Voices like Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are very dangerous, particular for Christians and conservatives"

January 2012

January 30, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: Do You Care What Others Think about You?

"Our culture delights in and rewards those who spread controversy, but do we? Should we?"

January 23, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: Why John Piper is Wrong and Why Racism Still Matters

"The Gospel must motivate us towards critiquing structural racism, as opposed to only looking to...

January 09, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: Top 10 'Anti-Christian' Acts of 2011 and SB 48

"When the worldly government does not favor our moral system, we take it as an...

January 02, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.com, and Political Nihilism

"Unfortunately, many Christians have adopted this nihilism, leading to the perpetuation of lies, hatred, and...

December 2011

December 19, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: The U.S. Funding of International LGBT Rights

"As Christians, we are called to love and care for our neighbor, which clearly means...

December 12, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Atheists Are Idiots, Really?

"Let their prayer be, 'I believe, Lord; Help my unbelief,' rather than, 'I believe, Lord;...

December 05, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Ray Comfort and the Victim Complex in the American Church (Updated)

"The American Church sees itself as a victim..., when, in fact, Christianity is one of...

November 2011

November 28, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Defending the Empty Form of Public Faith

"Is our country any more Christian because of our President's Thanksgiving address or holiday decorations...

October 2011

October 24, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Sometimes "Political Correctness" Is Just Common Decency

A Messiah College student group stands up for edifying language, leading conservatives and Christians to...

October 17, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: the Offense of the Gospel as a License for Arrogance

". . . we must make every effort to discern between our self-righteous offense, which...

October 03, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Care to See Charity?

"At the risk of sounding dramatic, I want to suggest that charity is a virtue...

September 2011

September 19, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Auto-tuned Elevation Church

"Rather than emphasize unity and equality before Christ, the song emphasizes the dramatic difference between...

September 12, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: 9/11 and the Complexity of the World

"By accepting that the world is complex we acknowledge our own finitude before it, our...

August 2011

August 29, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: The New York Times' Religious Quiz for Presidential Candidates

All candidates should be open about their defining beliefs. Whether they are based on the...

August 22, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: WORLD Magazine's Editorial Cartoons

"Christians are all too comfortable mocking atheists, evolutionists, Democrats, and presidents, through cartoons."

August 15, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Bachmann, Schaeffer, Pearcey, and Private Faith

"There is an important point here that Christians must take note of: secularism can only...

August 08, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Christian Ethics in Air Force Training and the Authority of the Bible

"If the State cannot allow itself to be judged by God's Word, it is very...

August 01, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Praying for those in Power

"If we offered thanksgivings for all our leaders, could we mock them with political jokes?"

July 2011

July 18, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Conscientious Objectors and the Sovereign State

"We should be standing with Muslims, Christians, people of other religions, and even atheist soldiers...

June 2011

June 20, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Illegal Immigration and the SBC

The SBC urges the government to create a path to citizenship for illegal immigration and...

June 13, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: "The Kill Team" and the Overlooked Costs of War

"As citizens, it can be easy for us to write off the costs we had...

June 06, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Should We “Vote with Our Dollars”?

"As citizens of the kingdom of heaven, we are called to a different rhetoric or...

May 2011

May 30, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Memorial Day, Kevin DeYoung, and How to be Patriotic

It's not about loyalty, it's about respect.

May 23, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Why "Answering Muslims" Isn't So Great at Answering Muslims

"If a Christian apologetic is primarily devoted to defending the American Constitution, it is worth...

May 16, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Keeping Up With the Joneses

"We don't merely want to 'keep up with the Joneses,' we want to beat them."

May 09, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: "Should Christians Support a Burqa Ban?"

"As long as Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and other major faiths openly and publicly exercise and...

May 02, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: What did You Tweet when Osama was Killed?

"These gatherings on social networks that occur right after a historic event seem to also...

April 2011

April 25, 2011

Citizenship Confusion: Guantánamo Files

"Even the people who desire to kill us are our neighbors."

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