Today, we saw the first total eclipse to cross American in 99 years. We discuss what to do (or not do). Then, we look at some of the debates bubbling up around free speech in this country. Popular speech doesn’t need protection because it has the benefit of public support. But recently, there is more and […]
We recap the big headlines from a very busy week in the news: Coordinated terrorist attack in Barcelona kills 14 and wounds many more The events of Charlottesville, VA, continue to reverberate around the nation. And Christians continue to wrestle with our witness and response. Washington Post op-ed: As a white evangelical leader, I have said […]
Yesterday was the memorial service for Heather Heyer, the 32-year old woman who was killed in Charlottesville, VA. Heather’s mother, Susan Bro spoke. She said: “They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well, guess what. You just magnified her.” She also invoked her daughter’s Facebook post — “‘If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying […]
The churn of the last few days has been intense and it continues today. Charlottesville is now Durham and Baltimore and New York City and LA. The coming out of the neo-nazi and white nationalism in protest over the scheduled removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from a park in Charlottesville, Virginia uncorked […]
The fallout from the racist events in Charlottesville, VA continues. We also want to keep in view the reality of Nazi philosophy. There are still survivors of Nazi concentration camps among us, who remind us of the evil and destruction of Nazism. The oldest man in Israel, who weighed 81 lbs when Auschwitz was liberated, […]
Saturday’s events in Charlottesville are evidence that evil is present, and that it persists. And it is a moment of truth. A moment in which we must face the reality of racism not only as a specific part of our national history, but as a systemic part of the human condition. All human beings stand […]
President Trump and Kim Jong Un continue to exchange heated rhetoric – the latest statement coming from President Trump that military options are now fully in place, locked and loaded. What is behind the tough talk? Are we finding our identity in Christ? The story of Chelsea Manning reminds us how living in a fallen […]
First, a small bit of good news from North Korea: the regime released a detained Canadian pastor. But the big news of the day regarding North Korea is not good. The country has threatened to strike US territory Guam. President Trump responded, promising “fire and fury.” What is our response as Christians? Well, one pastor […]
Can religion and science coexist? Our guest works on this question every day. Astrophysicist Dr. Jennifer Wiseman is Director of the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Do you enjoy God? Do you even think about that question? In the second half of the show, […]
North Korea edges closer to being able to launch a nuclear weapon. That, on top of all the other news of famine, conflict and war, can wear on us. In the face of bad news, we are the people of good news. Can’t we talk to each other any more? Google fired the male engineer […]