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2025-07-01T10:21:13-05:00

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Can a Real Christian Support the Shut Down of USAID?

Last updated on: July 1, 2025 at 10:21 am By Roger E. Olson

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According to today’s edition of Time.com (July 1, 2025), the shuttering of USAID will lead to millions of deaths around the world. That claim is based on a new study published in the respected medical journal The Lancet (June 30) showing that the defunding of USAID (The United States Agency for International Development) by Trump (at the behest of Musk) will lead to the deaths of 14 million people by 2030 of whom 4.5 million will be children and babies... Read more

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2025-06-30T10:46:29-05:00

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Gospel Before Government: Faith’s Role in Politics

Last updated on: June 30, 2025 at 10:46 am By Roger E. Olson

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Here I continue discussing Rodney Clapp’s excellent book Living Out of Control: Political and Personal Faith in Waning Christendom. Here I take up Chapter Seven: The Political Centrality of the Gospel. If you have read this chapter, feel free to discuss it. If you have not, feel free to ask a question. I think the chapter title could be misunderstood. It’s not saying that politics is central to the gospel but that the gospel is central to politics—for the... Read more

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2025-06-25T11:29:42-05:00

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More About “Christian Anarchism”

Last updated on: June 25, 2025 at 11:29 am By Roger E. Olson

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Here I piggy-back on the immediately preceding blog post which was about Rodney Clapp’s chapter about Christian anarchism in his book Living Out of Control. I have long been interested in Christian anarchy/anarchism which is one reason I chose to join a Mennonite church several years ago. Anabaptists have long adhered, more or less strictly, to Christian anarchism. In the past and somewhat today, an “anarchist” is believed to be someone who is opposed to all government whatsoever. Actually, however,... Read more

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2025-06-23T10:52:15-05:00

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Christian Anarchy: Faith Beyond Politics and Power

Last updated on: June 23, 2025 at 10:52 am By Roger E. Olson

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Christian Anarchism Here I take up Chapter Six of Rodney Clapp’s book Living Out of Control: Political and Personal Faith in Waning Christendom. The title is “The Anarchistic Tendency and Christian Citizenship.” If you have read the chapter, feel free to comment. If not, only ask a question. I often tell my students to read the last paragraph of a chapter first. Often an author tells his or her thesis there. Here it is: “Let us, then, embrace the Christian... Read more

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2025-06-19T07:31:40-05:00

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What Is the “Image of God” in Man?

Last updated on: June 19, 2025 at 7:31 am By Roger E. Olson

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I have been reading a relatively new book about the meaning of “image of God” (“imago dei”) concept in Christian theology. It’s title is Dignity and Destiny: Humanity in the Image of God; it’s author is theologian John F. Kilner. It was published by Eerdmans in 2015. So, yes, I’m a little late coming to it. Kilner’s book is 402 pages long, including the bibliography and index. 330 pages of text. So it’s something of a tome. And it is... Read more

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2025-06-16T09:18:02-05:00

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Rodney Clapp on Christian Nationalism

Last updated on: June 16, 2025 at 9:18 am By Roger E. Olson

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Here I continue my discussion of Rodney Clapp’s book Living Out of Control: Political and Personal Faith in Waning Christendom. This week’s chapter is Chapter Five: Christian Nationalism: An Alternative to Living Out of Control. If you have read the chapter, feel free to comment but stay on topic. If you have not read it, you may ask a question. According to Rodney (I call him by his first name as we are friends), Christian nationalism, at least as he... Read more

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2025-06-18T08:52:18-05:00

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Is Civil Religion America’s New National Faith?

Last updated on: June 18, 2025 at 8:52 am By Roger E. Olson

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Civil Religion in America Here I have been discussing Rodney Clapp’s book Living Out of Control—about the demise of “Christendom” and how American Christians need to see that as a benefit and take advantage of it to be the church God intends us to be. All of the discussion and debate about that, here, raises the issue of “civil religion.” What is that and what does it have to do with Christendom? The phrase “civil religion” was coined by Enlightenment... Read more

2025-06-11T09:58:18-05:00

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MLK and the “Higher Law”

Last updated on: June 11, 2025 at 9:58 am By Roger E. Olson

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Martin Luther King believed and said that “man’s law” is not the “higher law” and that the “higher law,” which he specifically identified as “the moral law” or “God’s law” justifies civil disobedience to man’s law. This was stated in his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” MLK was a Christian theologian and a prophet. He openly based many of his claims about justice on biblical prophets and on Jesus’s teachings. His Christianity was in the forefront of his ministry and... Read more

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2025-06-10T10:34:24-05:00

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Living Out of Control: Prefigurative Politics

Last updated on: June 10, 2025 at 10:34 am By Roger E. Olson

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This is another installment of the current book discussion of Living Out of Control: Political and Personal Faith in Waning Christendom by Rodney Clapp. Here I will take up Chapter Four: Prefigurative Politics and Secularity. If you have read this chapter, feel free to comment. If not, feel free to ask a question. The thesis of this chapter is that the Christian church should not attempt to control culture or society but only “prefigure the world as it will... Read more

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2025-06-05T10:08:52-05:00

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What Germany Did to Families of Resistance Members

Last updated on: June 5, 2025 at 10:08 am By Roger E. Olson

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The conspiracy to assassinate Hitler was wider and deeper than many people realize. One of its members was Ulrich von Haskell, an aristocrat and diplomat for the German government. He was arrested by the Gestapo in July, 1944 and tried and executed on the same day (July 29). The Gestapo then arrested his daughter AND two little sons, one four and one two, at their home in Northern Italy. There was no reason for their arrest and following detention than... Read more

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