Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 4] 13 Jun 2019 The northern Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals told its 1920 General Conference, meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, that national prohibition was the "greatest victory ever won by the…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 3] 6 Jun 2019 National Prohibition was enacted in 1919 with the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Methodism, having espoused a strong anti-liquor stance since at least the early nineteenth century, was a…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 2] 30 May 2019 The history of Methodism and its political involvement over the last century forms an essential and largely overlooked part of American history. Understanding America may be impossible without understanding the…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 1] 23 May 2019 This week I will start a new series. I realize that in some cases I may be 'walking on egg shells'. Sometimes that is necessary to get a point across. …
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 33] 16 May 201923 May 2019 Legitimate research requires relentless skepticism, a humility about conclusions, and a willingness to examine preconceived assumptions. Science isn't a scroll of revealed knowledge, or a discrete body of approved facts. …
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 32] 9 May 2019 As we saw last week many of our climate crusaders want us to give up our living standards while they tour around the country...and world...telling us what needs to be…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 31] 2 May 2019 This week we will look at some of today's best known 'do as I say, not as I do' hypocrites. These are the same people who feel comfortable burdening the…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 30] 25 Apr 2019 This week we will deviate somewhat from environmental concerns, even though this weeks dissertation is actually on 'environment' of a different kind...societal environment. With over 240 co-sponsors, the U.S. House…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 29] 18 Apr 2019 Of the groups previously mentioned, none made a serious attempt to tie the repeal of DACA to actual environmental concerns. The Sierra Club didn't try to explain how secure borders…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 28] 11 Apr 2019 Last week we saw how a political agenda...man's politics...justified silence in the burning of thousands of acres of forest land. Even as the fire raged, billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, a…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 27] 4 Apr 2019 This week we will take a look at well intentioned efforts by environmentalists and some of the unexpected effects that may have undone their efforts. While some may think that…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 26] 28 Mar 2019 This week we will continue on with a look at environmentalism. Just drive down our highways and we will see how seriously we take the environment as a society. The…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 25] 21 Mar 2019 This week we will look at the subject of the environment. From the Biblical point of view, mankind was given a planet with an environment to support life and all…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 24] 14 Mar 201915 Mar 2019 This week we will look at the further unified effort by 'man's politics' to put 'God's politics' and design for mankind aside. The 'politics of man' agenda is to not…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 23] 7 Mar 2019 Before I start this week's commentary on the 'politics of God', I want to do a brief discussion on something I read a couple of weeks ago that I found…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 22] 28 Feb 2019 Last week we saw how 'man's politics' was trying to replace God's plan for humanity and how many males who God designed to form, support, and protect the family were…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 21] 22 Feb 2019 This week I found myself reading in the Book of Habakkuk. He was a prophet who lived in Judah toward the end of King Josiah's reign (640-609 BC) and at…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 20] 14 Feb 2019 Before we start this week's continuation of man's attempt to 'out-do' God, I happened to be reading the Book of Amos in the Old Testament. Amos spoke for God in…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 19] 7 Feb 2019 Before we start this week I want to present something I was recently reading in Ezekiel. Just as a reminder he was a prophet before, during, and after the siege…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 18] 31 Jan 2019 We have seen in the past few weeks what can happen to a segment of society when man tries to replace 'the politics of God' with 'the politics of man'. …
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 17] 24 Jan 201924 Jan 2019 One would believe that the importation of of medieval customs from the Islamic world would be a significant threat to the feminist movement. That does not appear to be the…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 16] 17 Jan 2019 One might believe that the feminist agenda is one pushed by women who come from the 'masses'. This actually is not in particular the case. Almost all of its prominent…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 15] 10 Jan 2019 Last week we started to take a look at how some in the feminist movement value the 'right' to an abortion even over life itself. But just as demeaning is…
Politics and the Church Politics and the Church – The Politics of God [Part 14] 3 Jan 2019 We closed last week with concern as to whether 'man's politics' was producing the results that they were intended to produce when they first set 'God's politics' aside as being…
