Barack, What Happened to All the Change You Promised?

John W. Whitehead July 20th, 2009

The unemployment rate in the U.S. now stands at 9.5% and soon will top 10%. And the number of U.S. households on the verge of losing their homes soared by nearly 15% in the first half of this year. This has caused some economists to question whether or not the country is headed toward another economic meltdown–a point of no return. However, watching the news coverage of Barack Obama’s adventures while in office, you might be forgiven for thinking there were no problems left to solve in t … (Read More)

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Does the Afghanistan War Represent Graveyard Thinking?

John W. Whitehead April 15th, 2009

"I fear that President Obama, finding himself embroiled in an unwinnable war, with too much invested in treasure, lives and reputation to just pick up and walk away, will share the fate of another liberal Democratic president whose dreams for a "Great society" had to be abandoned because of his decisions to become involved in quagmire."–Professor Camillo Bica

Afghanistan has become America's war–a very expensive war at that and one with no exit strategy or ti … (Read More)

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News Alert: Be Very Afraid!

Steve Brown February 12th, 2009

I may have told you before but, for a short period of time, we had a Playboy link on this blog. It was kind of jarring to the Christians who saw it.

If you clicked on it, do you know what happened?

No, no, no. We wouldn't do that!

If you clicked on that link, you ended up at the website of Campus Crusade for Christ with an opportunity to hear a plan of salvation.

I would have left it there, but Jesus made us take it down. I think he said something about the ends not justifying the means and … (Read More)

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Will Obama Be a Peacemaker?

John W. Whitehead January 21st, 2009

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children…This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

–Dwight D. … (Read More)

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War and Peace

Steve Brown January 10th, 2008

As we move into this election year and Christians are considering the candidates for President, more and more, I keep getting asked questions like, "How are Christians supposed to reconcile Jesus’ message of peace with the fact that we live in a nation at war?"

That question makes an assumption that there is a disconnect between being a Christian and participating and supporting a war. There is a sense in which that is true. But there is also a disingenuous side to that disconnect. … (Read More)

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What is Just War Theory?

Kenneth Samples August 21st, 2007

Through the centuries Christian thinkers have taken different positions on the controversial subject of war. Three broad theories concerning the morality of war for the Christian can be identified: activism, pacifism, and selectivism. Activism asserts that it is virtually always right to participate in war. Strict pacifism insists that it is never morally right to partake in war. Selectivism argues that it is sometimes right to take part in war.

Just war theory is a type of selectivism contendin … (Read More)

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