"Welfare" in the Early Church

By Byron Harvey / July 1, 2012 /

Now and again you’ll hear someone, usually a professing Christian whose politics skew left, try to draw a parallel between what took place in the early church (recorded in Acts 4) and our contemporary welfare state. I find this connection to be utterly untenable, and I thought I’d explain this to my readers by listing…

Jesus and Homosexuality

By Byron Harvey / May 28, 2012 /

One of the things one hears with frequency in our current cultural soiree with regard to homosexuality goes something like this: “Jesus never said anything about homosexuality”, and of course the intended upshot is fairly obvious. As the reasoning goes, because we can find in the words of Jesus, recorded in the gospels, no mention…

The Next Good Argument I Hear for "Gay Marriage"…

By Byron Harvey / February 9, 2012 /

Will be the first. Seriously, liberal argumentation generally consists of sloganeering, half-truths, utopian fantasies, and ad hominem attacks. Pretty much every argument that I’ve ever heard advanced to buttress “gay marriage” falls neatly into one or more of these categories. Today, USA Today came out with an editorial piece favoring the decision by the ultra-leftist…

On the "Culture War"

By Byron Harvey / February 8, 2012 /

Jonah Goldberg is becoming my favorite editorial columnist. This piece is dead on the money: It’s the Liberals Who are Driving the Culture War The popular perception among some is that evangelicals and conservatives are on some kind of witchhunt against what they perceive to be the forces of darkness, that it is we who…