Conventional Thinking: Incognito Christians?
in·cog·ni·to—Adjective: “(Of a person) having one’s true identity concealed.” There’s been a lot of discussion lately in the media about secret agents. Not of the fictional James Bond sort, but real life FBI and CIA agents and their work. A recent LifeWay Research poll shows that there is another group that is often living under cover: Christians. While the poll of Protestant Christians showed that a majority of “American churchgoers...
Conventional Thinking: Life after Roe
With President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to become the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice, there has been widespread conversation about the overturn of Roe v. Wade, the notorious 1973 Supreme Court ruling that mandated legalized abortion in America. The thought goes like this. If Justice Kavanaugh is affirmed by the Senate, thus bringing a conservative majority to the Court, a case could thereafter arise that challenges and...
Pensamiento Convencional
Con la noticia reciente de líderes cristianos fallando moralmente, es un buen tiempo para hacer dos cosas. Primero, debemos orar por estos hombres y sus familias, quienes son directamente afectados por sus acciones. La segunda es tener cuidado de no caer (1 Corintios 10:12). Hoy escribo sobre este segundo punto. Contemplando la vida en estos días, se ha dicho que prácticamente nada es privado y nada es confidencial. Cualquier mensaje...
Conventional Thinking: Now what?
The people have spoken. On June 26, Oklahoma voters approved State Question 788, presented to the voters “medical marijuana,” by a 57-43 margin. Ignoring reasonable voices of caution, including U.S. Senator James Lankford and Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore, as well as leaders from the business and medical community, Oklahoma voters took one giant leap toward marijuana with this ballot. While this should sadden Christians, it...
Conventional Thinking: Liberty takes the cake
Approximately six years ago, a man named Jack Phillips, who is a cake artist and owns the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado, was asked by a same-sex couple to bake a cake for their wedding ceremony. At the time, same-sex marriage was not the law of the land in Colorado—or in America for that matter. Phillips, a devout Christian, decided his sincerely-held religious beliefs and conscience would not allow him to bake the cake, but said...
