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"Welfare" in the Early Church
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…
Trading Freedom for Security
“He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.” – attributed to Ben Franklin This is the quintessential answer to supporters of Obamacare.
As Long as We Can Keep It
It was the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September, 1787, and expectations were running high. Having worked long and hard at crafting the document, and emerging from the room, Benjamin Franklin was asked by an anxious citizen, “Well, Doctor, what have we…
Jesus and Homosexuality
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…
Here's to Paul…
Goodness knows I’ve recently given my long-time friend and WebbieDude Paul some grief lately—the sum total of which doesn’t even begin to even the score, I might add—but while I am away in El Salvador in a couple weeks, if everything goes according to plan,…