Category Archives: Contemporary Issues

Resources on Origins and Christian Faith

Posted on May 4, 2019 by Joe Ginder

Do you know a student who is trying to work out how to reconcile the latest science on human origins with their Christian faith and biblical teaching? Allow me to recommend that you refer them to works by John Walton, … Continue reading →

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Unconditional Love or Unconditional Affirmation

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Joe Ginder

Unconditional affirmation and unconditional love are not the same thing. To demand the former is to actually exclude the latter. Sam Allberry

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antichrist church

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Joe Ginder

The cultivation of consumer spirituality is the antithesis of a sacrificial, “deny yourself” congregation. A consumer church is an antichrist church. Eugene Peterson

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Alan Jacobs’ “The Politics of Long Joy”

Posted on December 9, 2017 by Joe Ginder

Alan Jacobs has re-cycled an excellent essay he wrote ten years ago as a column for the late lamented Books & Culture. He found what he had to say then particularly apropos to the present day. I don’t recall reading … Continue reading →

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Trustworthiness

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Joe Ginder

Quoting Miroslav Volf: We are in a major crisis of legitimacy and trust. No better time to renew commitment to trustworthiness, as individuals and communities. Well said.

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American Health Care, or lack thereof, and cost

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Joe Ginder

Here are the raw numbers we have to account for in our failed health care system. Highlights. We spend more PUBLIC money on healthcare than comparable countries with national health care systems. When you add the private money in, we … Continue reading →

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Sarah Williams talks on “Sex in the Post-Modern Story”

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Joe Ginder

“The problem of sexual confusion in our culture, which is huge, is not going to be solved by the reassertion of power.” Thus says the wise and learned Sarah Williams in these talks given at Corban University, which I cannot … Continue reading →

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We Don’t Need Either One

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Joe Ginder

Judah got in a lot of trouble for depending on Assyria to protect them from the Israel/Aram coalition. And then Judah got in a lot of trouble for looking to Babylon to protect them from the Assyrians. Later, Judah got … Continue reading →

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This is Not Social Discourse

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Joe Ginder

I’m not a particular fan of Bill Gates. However in this interview of Bill Gates from the Atlantic, Gates quite reasonably expresses the need to increase the rate of development for new energy sources (by a lot) because of climate … Continue reading →

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The anxiety of a broken world… (not)

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Joe Ginder

In The World is not Ours to Save, Tyler Wigg-Stevenson recommends for those who follow Jesus “enduring, kingdom-oriented activism grounded in the faithfulness of vocation instead of the anxiety of a broken world.”

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