Don’t Disparage Social Justice
A couple weeks ago, John MacArthur and others issued “The Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel.” It was controversial and stirred some pots. The statement covered 14 different subjects, and there...
View ArticleThe Mindless Tribalism Curse
Yesterday, Facebook blew up with people expressing, with delusional authority, their opinions about the Brett Kavanaugh situation. Here’s how it broke down: Trump supporters: believe Kavanaugh. He’s...
View ArticleRebranding General Robert E. Lee
In the fall of 1870, Bishop Jonathan Weaver, who would serve as a United Brethren bishop until 1901, took a train from Maryland to Tennessee to conduct the annual meeting of the churches of Tennessee...
View ArticleWe Don’t Need Chatty Gas Pumps
Gas pumps have become annoyingly demanding. It’s one thing after another. I just want to fill my tank. But before the gasoline will flow, the machine makes me respond to a bunch of prompts. Enter your...
View ArticleDumped Like a Dog
Most people like dogs. I’d love to have a dog, but we have cats because they fit our lifestyle; they don’t require the attention that a dog needs. Studies (yes, they’ve done studies) show that...
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The President Targets a Lutheran Minister for Deportation
Rev. Betty Rendon Betty Rendon, a Lutheran minister, is a horrible person who is damaging the United States of America, and President Trump wants her out of the country ASAP. It started with Rendon’s...
View ArticleRobert Mueller Doesn’t Deserve What Congress Did to Him Yesterday
I was revolted by the Congressional hearing yesterday. Revolted by the Republicans screaming insults at a man who has served his country faithfully, and who accepted an enormously difficult task and...
View ArticleEight Months, ICE, and the Soul of America
I recently spent a day helping a Hispanic family who are going through the asylum process. It required a trip to Indy. My rudimentary Spanish came in handy. The father and his five-year-old son came in...
View ArticleThis Man is Your Friend
I’m outraged by the arrest yesterday of a 20-year-old man in Springfield, Miss., who was just exercising his constitutional rights. This good American was fully obeying the law. He walked into a...
View ArticleCT: An Evangelical Voice that has Earned the Right to be Heard
About 40 years ago, Paul Rees spoke at our denomination’s Michigan Annual Conference. He was an elder Christian statesman—pastor, author, denominational exec, president of the National Association of...
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