IntroductionIn The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau criticizes Christians with these words, “Christianity is an entirely spiritual religion, occupied solely with heavenly things; the Christian’s country is not of this world. He does his duty, certainly, but does it with a deep lack of interest in whether the work he has put in has produced good or bad results.”[1] Rousseau makes three claims...

Pornography is looking at images as erotic stimulants. It is the attempt to arouse a sex instinct where it was previously dulled, or excite it where it was strong already. It must always be evil because, for a human, it degrades his kind and is unworthy of human dignity. Flannery O’Connor said of pornography, “It leaves out the connection of sex with its hard purpose, and so far discon......

Megan Basham has written a deeply sourced book about how the political left has been pouring money and influence into evangelicalism for decades. There are initiatives, political action groups, conferences, books, and celebrity pastors that have introduced leftist political policies into the church. Rank and file evangelicals first exposure to the politicization of their church is usually through ...

Among evangelicals, there has long existed a vague unanimity that polygamy was wrong. There was a hazy notion of the varied examples of it in Scripture, but it was nothing more than a preposterous proposition. If one wife is a tantalizing riddle, what must 1000 wives be?...

The Sanhedrin had been crowned, anointed, and named the official power brokers of Israel. When the rogue rabbi from Nazareth showed up, they claimed the right to kill him, as much as a Scot has a right to Scotch. Jesus’ ministry threatens the political arrangement between the Pharisees and Rome. Jerusalem thrives on economic exploitation. It serves as the capital city, the seat of power, and the b...