(Leading the Presence-Driven Church students, Faith Bible Seminary, NYC) |
We all need it, and need to learn it, and practice it.
Thoughts about God, culture, and the Real Jesus.
(Leading the Presence-Driven Church students, Faith Bible Seminary, NYC) |
Downtown Monroe |
(Park, across from our house.)
In Jesus and the Powers, N. T. Wright and Michael Bird write:
"Many political progressives see Christianity as the number-one enemy against which they are struggling. As such, Christian communities, institutions, cultural influence and moral vision are the darkness against which their post-religious enlightenment is intended to shine. Christianity’s influence can only be eliminated by realigning institutions towards a secularised morality, by narrowing the parameters of religious freedom, by a coercive catharsis of religion itself, and by deconstructing resident fixtures such as history, constitutional law and even family. In the end, the progressive political vision amounts to what US political philosopher Stephen Macedo calls civic totalism, where the State is invested with all power and seeks to regulate as much of public and private life as possible."
- Wright, N. T.; Bird, Michael F.. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies (pp. 138-139).
For more on the progressivist trajectory, see my book Deconstructing Progressive Christianity.
(I am re-posting this for the unborn.)
Professor Robert P. George is one of the most influential scholars, for me and many others, on the abortion issue.
As an example of moral and rational clarity, see: "Defending Unborn Life in Political Action: We Must Continue the Struggle for the Soul of Our Nation." It's brilliant and compassionate.
Here's a quote from George.
"Are unborn babies persons? As a matter of moral fact, they are. That is because the offspring of human parents, from the earliest embryonic stage of their development forward, are — and are undeniably — distinct, complete, albeit dependent and developing, living members of the species Homo sapiens: human beings. And all human beings are persons — that is, creatures whose nature is a rational nature. Like human beings in the infant stage, human beings in the fetal and embryonic stages of development do not yet carry out characteristically human mental activities; yet embryonic, fetal and infant human beings are organized precisely to develop the immediately exercisable capacities for precisely such activities. That is their nature."
If anyone wonders why I am so concerned about this issue, please read George's article.
If you want to contact me and talk about this essay, please do so. johnpiippo@msn.com
And see here for more.
(University of Michigan) |
(Warren Dunes State Park, Michigan) |
(Sterling State Park) |
Our back yard |
Bolles Harbor, Monroe |