Wars, Just and Unjust
Laying Down Your Life for Your Country
9 May, 2017 We Americans – generally – have held it out to our children, traditionally our young men, to be noble citizens, willing to defend the land. Indeed, we have honored our fallen almost without equivocation. Who can speak evil of one who gives up his life for another? We still suffer a national embarrassment from […]
Snarr, Civil Rights, and THE Issue at Hand
22 Feb., 2017 As reported by Neil Snarr in the Journal (21 Feb., 2017) there was in Wilmington an anti-slavery newspaper published from 1851-1855, The Herald of Freedom, edited one John W. Chaffin. I was delighted to read about it. To the glory of Biblical truths and justice and to the credit of these Christian […]
The Single “Issue” and Trump
7 Feb., 2017 A false parity between “the right” and “the left” continues now into the middle of the fifth decade. I have in mind of course the “abortion issue.” It is not true that those on each side ought to respect one another’s opinion and patiently wait for a peaceful outworking of “differences.” We […]
War, What is it Good For?
“War, What is it Good For? War for Justice; War for Peace” Expanded from a Sermon delivered to Reformation Lutheran Church in Bowie, Maryland on 2 March, 2003. On Saint Patrick’s Day as I sat at the trial of James Kopp, the subject of the impending war on Iraq was brought up by a fellow […]
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