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September 2024

September 21, 2024

France’s Anti-Muslim Laws and National Identity

In 2004, France passed a law that banned “conspicuous” religious attire in schools. This law...

September 19, 2024

Poverty is Not Just Economic, It’s Spiritual

In our naturalistic world, we tend to consider things in terms of their materiality. If...

September 08, 2024

Attending a Forum on Nuclear Disarmament

Yesterday, the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC Dornsife ran a forum on nuclear...

September 01, 2024

What the Early Church Believed About Israel

On October 14, 2023, Israeli missiles struck the oldest church in Gaza. The Church of...

August 2024

August 25, 2024

Sex, Politics, and Religion: An Introduction

Sex and sexuality are some of the innermost aspects of human life. These things are...

August 15, 2024

Deuteronomy 28: Palestine, The (Conditionally) Promised Land

In 2017, the State of Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an interesting remark while...

August 04, 2024

Support for Israel Weaker Among Younger Evangelicals?

Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel led to the deaths of over 1,200 people, mostly...

July 2024

July 21, 2024

The Prosperity Gospel and Weber’s Protestant Ethic

This column is dedicated to the intersection of faith and politics. And while this area...

July 18, 2024

A Sikh Prayer at the RNC Sparks Christian Outrage

The first freedom guaranteed in the Bill of Rights is the freedom of religion. The...

July 09, 2024

Can Christians Vote Their Values in a Two-Party System?

2020 was the year that I awoke to the political world around me. It was...

July 01, 2024

Grants Pass: How Does America Treat Its Poor?

On Friday, the Supreme Court of the United States made a historical ruling that will...

June 2024

June 30, 2024

The Church Needs a Faith that Works

The relationship between faith and works is a difficult one for Protestants. Since the Protestant...

June 22, 2024

Would Jesus Make Fun of Homeless People?

Every society has some form of poverty. As Jesus said, we will always have the...

June 15, 2024

Creationism vs. Science from Scopes to Science Films

The debate between creationism and evolution is a continuously popular one in Christian circles. Much...

June 09, 2024

The Sabbath was Made for Us, Not Us for the Sabbath

The teachings of Jesus are absolutely foundational to Christian living. As Jesus Himself once said,...

May 2024

May 24, 2024

An Introduction to Evangelicals and Christian Media

This article is an introduction into how evangelicals utilize media. When we are talking about...

May 17, 2024

Augustine’s City of God: No Justice, No Peace

Augustine's City of God is a foundational text in Christian political thought. Augustine developed many important concepts...

May 10, 2024

Political Animals from the Garden of Eden

One of the great philosophers in the Western tradition, Aristotle, famously called humans "political animals."...

April 2024

April 28, 2024

Observing Passover: Naomi Klein and the Exodus from Zionism

Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, is celebrated this year from April 22 to April 30....

April 20, 2024

Jesus and the Syrophoenician Woman Revisited

Was Jesus a racist? In the Gospel of Mark, there is a story where a...

April 17, 2024

The Stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel

On April 15th, 2024, four people were injured at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in...

April 13, 2024

The Alternative to Christian Nationalism

The past several election years have been traumatic for the American Church. The Body of...

April 08, 2024

Who is my neighbor? Easter and Trans Day of Visibility

On March 31st, President Joe Biden established Trans Day of Visibility as a national holiday....

March 2024

March 28, 2024

Politics of Jesus: Not a Revolutionary, But Still Political

This semester, I've been looking at the Law of Moses throughout the Bible, in the...

March 24, 2024

Lessons from Elevation Church’s Easter Invites

Current events in Christian pop culture show a lot about the Church. As Jesus said,...

March 15, 2024

Practicing Faithful Politics

Ah, religion and politics. The two things you don't want to bring up at the family dinner...