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Just or Unjust: Reviewing the Syrian Missile Strike

by Rhett Burns | April 23, 2018 | Blog, Politics, Rhett Burns | 0 Comments

Last week, I posted my article on just war and the ascendance of foreign policy hawks in the White House on the same morning President Trump tweeted this: Two days later, President Trump, along with his British and French counterparts, ordered a limited missile strike...

Yokefellows in Hardship

by George Grant | April 20, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Current affairs, George Grant, History, Religion, Worldview | 0 Comments

The horrific ruthlessness of ISIS, the brazen cruelty of Boko Haram, the obsessive repression of the North Korean Juche, the vicious terrorism of Al-Qaeda: I confess that when faced with the gleeful persecution of my Christian brothers and sisters around the world in...

The Whirlwind Bides His Time

by Jason Farley | April 17, 2018 | Arts, Blog, Book Reviews, Jason Farley, Theology | 0 Comments

Having recently had The Rev. Joseph Carlson as a Guest on the recent episode of CrossPolitic, I thought it might be nice to get one of his sonnets before you. This is for the 24th Sunday of the Trinity Season in his book of Sonnets for the Church Year. Waiting Four...

Hawks Ascend in White House: Just War or Just War?

by Rhett Burns | April 11, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Politics, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Three weeks ago, I wrote a response to Michael Gerson’s essay in The Atlantic about evangelical support of President Trump. I found it hypocritical that Gerson, a senior policy advisor to President Bush and a member of The White House Iraq Group, was lecturing...

Neologisms

by George Grant | April 9, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, Current affairs, Featured Post, George Grant, History | 0 Comments

Every year new words and phrases find their way into our vocabulary. Sometimes these neologisms are the result of political turns of events, like Brexit, alt-right, or newsjacking. Sometimes it is technology and digital media that introduce new words like hashtag,...

Abortion, the Death Penalty, and Our Nation’s Hypocrisy

by admin | April 5, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Politics, Theology | 0 Comments

Idaho Senator Bob Nonini has come under fire recently for nodding his head in agreement with the view that those who murder a baby in the womb should face criminal charges. CrossPolitic hosted a live show interviewing three of the Republican candidates for Lt....

Lost Words

by George Grant | April 4, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, George Grant, History, Religion, The Bible, Theology | 0 Comments

In his classic book, The Holiness of God, R.C. Sproul bemoans the absence from our vocabulary of certain, once-familiar, King James Version words. It wasn’t so much the loss of antiquated verb forms like walketh and talketh, or sayest and mayest that bothered him. It...

Easter Invitation – Bring Your Shipwreck

by Jason Farley | March 31, 2018 | Arts, Blog, Jason Farley, Theology | 0 Comments

“The Church is like a great ship sailing the sea of the world and tossed by the waves of temptation in this life.” St. Boniface, letter 78 From the very beginning of our lives, we are dependent upon received grace. Grace that we have never given. Grace that we cannot...

Cited: Christian Musician Found in Violation of Diversity Codes

by Rhett Burns | March 27, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

A few weeks ago, I reviewed Andrew Peterson’s beautiful new EP, Resurrection Letters: Prologue. His new full-length album will release on Good Friday, and in advance of that, The Gospel Coalition premiered the video for Peterson’s Revelation 5-inspired song, “Is He...

Hitching Their Wagons: Evangelicals and the Politics of Respectability

by Rhett Burns | March 19, 2018 | Blog, Politics, Rhett Burns | 0 Comments

Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, published a takedown of Trump-supporting evangelicals in the latest issue of The Atlantic. Gerson attempts to answer the question of how a once confident and influential cultural movement became an...

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Apr 18, 2018

https://www.facebook.com/CrossPolitic/videos/852660794906854/ Special episode tonight live on Facebook at 7pm Pacific time. Tune in here! Don't worry if you miss us live--you'll still be able to download the show on your favorite podcast platform. We are so grateful...

Enraging Culture: MLK 50 Fallout

Apr 15, 2018

Live on Facebook Sunday nights at 7pm Pacific time. Tune in now here! Don't worry if you miss us live--you'll still be able to download the show on your favorite podcast platform. A couple housekeeping items. First, we already had a couple of listeners purchase us...