Many Christians have been led to believe that we should be apolitical so as to eliminate any unnecessary distractions or impediments in our witness to others. After all, they say, what really matters is the Gospel. The implication of their argument…
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On Loving One’s Neighbor As One’s Self: The Political Component
📄The Areopagus Update - Aug/Sept 2024 A CALL TO WHOLISTIC DISCIPLESHIP Many Christians have been led to believe that we should be as apolitical as possible so as to eliminate any unnecessary distractions or impediments in our witness to others. What really matters,...
Ruminations on My Visit to Ebenezer Baptist Church
Over the past fifteen years, my wife Dollie and I have sought to set aside a Sunday or two each year to visit churches that have particular theological, social and cultural influence and significance in American history – either for better or for worse. This past...
Thoughts on Eric Metaxas’ Book and Sermon, “Letter to the American Church”
Why are pastors shrinking from speaking God’s Word in all its truth? A prime reason I’ve heard been given is because they are afraid of turning people off to the Christian faith. To this I would say that it’s not the pastor’s responsibility to change people’s hearts....
Give Life a Chance
📄The Areopagus Update – Summer 2022 The latest eruption in America’s ongoing culture war exploded prematurely on May 2, 2022 with the unauthorized leaking of a draft opinion from Associate Justice Samuel Alito indicating that the majority of justices on the U.S....
Reaping What We Have Sown
📄The Areopagus Update – Mar/Apr 2022 This past week we witnessed quite a spectacle as the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee held hearings on Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson – perhaps the most radical and least qualified person to ever...
A Requiem for Afghanistan
Last week I wrote an essay on our Areopagus Facebook page and website entitled “Don’t Trust Anyone’s Judgement Who Didn’t See This Coming” that began with this warning: Here is a simple lesson in prudential judgment:Don’t trust anyone’s judgement on any political,...
Do COVID-19 Vaccines Contain Aborted Fetal Cells?
Do COVID-19 Vaccines Contain Aborted Fetal Cells? Michael B. Sabom, M.D. originally posted 01/22/2021 Note: The following information is based on my experience in the medical field (Internal Medicine and Cardiology), my understanding of the best epidemiology research...
The Equality Act
📄The Areopagus Update – March/April 2021 “The most comprehensive assault on Christianity ever written into law.” In the January/February edition of The Areopagus Update I wrote of “The Looming Deluge” in which “a ferocious cultural, moral and spiritual storm is...
Democrats and Republicans: What’s the Difference?
Current Political Realities For the first twenty years of my adult life I sought to be as nonpartisan as possible, realizing that neither party is ideal. But the Democratic Party of the last fifty years – since its lurch leftward in 1972 with the nomination of George...
Politics Matters
On Loving One’s Neighbor as Oneself Many Christians have been led to believe that we should be as neutral as possible on the great social and political issues of our time so as to eliminate any unnecessary distractions or impediments in our witness to others. After...
Christianity Today Is Wrong… and Mark Galli Should Be Removed from Office
On December 19, 2019 the editor in chief of Christianity Today magazine, Mark Galli, published an editorial entitled "Trump Should Be Removed from Office," Galli’s analysis was so flawed that one is tempted to respond with something like “Mark Galli Should Be Removed...
On Loving One’s Neighbor as One’s Self: The Political Component
Many Christians have been led to believe that we should be as neutral as possible on the great social and political issues of our time so as to eliminate any unnecessary distractions or impediments in our witness to others. After all, they say, what really matters is...
The Truth About Human Sexuality in a Confused and Chaotic Culture
📄The Areopagus Update – May/June 2018 Insights and challenges from the new book by Nancy Pearcey, “Love Thy Body” Human life and sexuality have become the watershed moral issues of our age. Every day, the twenty-four-hour news cycle chronicles the advance of a secular...
IMAGINE… Four Secular Dogmas, and the Challenges We Face
📄The Areopagus Update – Mar/Apr 2018 by Thomas Lambrecht A recent article in the journal First Things by Mary Eberstadt entitled “The Zealous Faith of Secularism” make the case that the challenge we face in the United States is one of competing faiths or competing...