Are we raising sheep? Or are we raising shepherds?

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this: Our identity is intricately intertwined with our spiritual formation.

I suppose another title for this blog would be, "Loving Your Enemy: Part II." It is certainly related. If you haven't read the blog "Loving Your Enemy" about Christian Nationalism, you may want to read that one first.

In our country today, you see two very different visions of America emerging. There are many ways we could define this, but I want to focus on just one: immigration.

Recently, I read the book "Disarming Leviathan," by Caleb E. Campbell.

"Maintain justice and do what is right." - Isaiah 56:2b

I’ve written before about the necessity of the separation of church and state. It is truly to protect the Church, both from state influence and from becoming something it was never meant to be - an entity consumed with power and privilege and earthly wealth. 

"Empathy almost needs to be struck from the Christian vocabulary... Empathy is dangerous. Empathy is toxic. Empathy will align you with hell." - Josh McPherson on the Strong Men Nation podcast

A few years ago, I visited a conservative church in my area. The young, white, male pastor stood in front of his congregation and, in the middle of his sermon, declared that Genesis 2 “clearly shows” that women were created inferior to men.

Here’s my unpopular take for the day: it has to do with spanking.

Have you ever been through a really hard move? I have moved around quite a bit in my life, actually, but the hardest move I remember was when I was seventeen and just finished my junior year of high school. My father had been out of work for a while, working temp jobs and such, so when he got a job in another part of the state, we had to take it – even though it meant moving at a very inconvenient time in my life.