Today you have a rare opportunity. People are talking about abortion. It becomes harder and harder to pretend that the baby inside the womb is merely a clump of cells as we learn that individual hearts, lungs, heads, arms, and legs are selling for $100 a piece. If you want to raise the consciousness of […]
Category: Politics
Stop Planned Parenthood (#PPSellsBabyParts)
With the recent news that Planned Parenthood sells the dismembered body parts of aborted babies, we have reason for outrage, hope, and action.
Social Justice and Scripture: Untie the Knot Pt.20
In this final article of the series I want to address a question I brought up near the beginning: Why am I, a worship leader, so concerned about this issue? If I’ve been right in my preceding arguments, the answer is clear. I care about my society. I care about the world I live in […]
Social Justice and Scripture: Untie the Knot Pt.19
According to Scripture, what is justice? Or what is judgment? (They are often interchangeable.) Judgment always involves stopping and punishing a wrong-doer. That is the common feature when Scripture speaks of it. If no one stole from another or harmed another, there would be no need for society to provide judgment or justice. The need […]
Social Justice and Scripture: Untie the Knot Pt.18
In this series we’ve looked at “social justice”—what it is, why it’s wrong, and why it matters. In view of what I’ve said, we are in a better place to understand Scripture on concepts such as oppression, judgment/justice, and government.