Uncategorized Archives

Dec 12, 2011 Uncategorized

Immigration, Refugees, and the Old Testament

A search for ethics in Scripture that ignores the worldview of Israel will inadvertently result in a collapse of the reader’s worldview with the text’s worldview.

Dec 9, 2011 Uncategorized

The Christian in South Africa

Is South Africa hostile toward Christianity in the public square?

Dec 7, 2011 Uncategorized

The Masterful Illusion of “Ethical Oil”

Is the “ethical oil” approach a healthy way of tackling the oil sands—and should Christians feel comfortable using this approach?

Dec 5, 2011 Uncategorized

How Universal is Wisdom Literature?

The Wisdom Books—the part of the Old Testament, perhaps of the Bible, that seems most universal in their appeal at first glance—have an overriding purpose that still challenges the non-believing reader.

Dec 2, 2011 Uncategorized

A Poet’s Evolution

Johnston’s purpose is to explore the tension between the subjective and the objective, to keep these two realms of experience in balance.

Nov 30, 2011 Uncategorized

Surprised by the Spirit

How might an openness to the Spirit’s work in the entirety of the created order lead us to have eyes that look for surprising and unpredictable developments in cultural and political realms?

Nov 28, 2011 Uncategorized

The Ethics of Quantitative Easing: A Catholic Perspective

In the Catholic view, the legitimacy of property always rests on it being used for the common good.

Nov 28, 2011 Uncategorized

The “Occupy” Debt Serfs

The problem is we have used our remaining economic freedom over the past several decades to further maximize our own situations at the expense of our neighbours’.

Nov 25, 2011 Uncategorized