Jesus or religion–it’s assumed by so many today that the two are very different.  It’s popular to emphasize a personal relationship with Jesus as in opposition to religion.   It’s as if religion is this external stuff,  objective, cold, dry, and Jesus is warmth and life.  Well, that’s hardly a critique unique to today’s postmodernism.…

There are days when I feel I am one of the last of the Jedi, as a military chaplain.  America is dying; it is being corrupted from within, and twisted, like Rome of old.  Passions are inflamed by demagogues, and the masses are kept blissfully ignorant through bread and circuses. We chaplains once had moral…

Thom S. Rainer is the president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources. Prior to LifeWay, he served at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for twelve years where he was the founding dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism. He’s written an article, “Ten Signs a Pastor is Becoming a Chaplain.” I think…

“I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it. Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but…

I did my MA thesis on the Boston Unitarian pastor and abolitionist, Theodore Parker. He was an avid proponent of “civil disobedience,” the idea that men must disobey human laws that conflict with the “Higher Law” of God. Opposing the law requiring the return of fugitive slaves to their masters, he said those who passed…