Ted Cruz Endorses GOP Anti-Christ For President
#TrusTed? #NeverTrump? Not so much, it turns out. Back in February, we asked: Would Ted Cruz endorse Donald Trump for President? Responses were swift and plentiful from many Cruz-loving politically active American evangelicals. Their battlecry went pretty much like this: Never! Ted Cruz will never ever never ever NEVER endorse Donald Trump! How dare you even suggest such a thing! […]
What The Republican Convention Taught Us About Christian Prostitution
For all of my adult life, and much of my pre-adult life, I’ve been very interested in politics. For most of my Christian adult life, I was a proud member of what I’d now describe as the Rush Limbaugh conservative camp and an ardent adherent of “lesser of two evils” political philosophy. Then, by the grace […]
Filling The Great Commission Vacuum, Republican (And Democrat) Style
What do you do with a Great Commission sized vacuum? How do you fill a Great Commission shaped void? In America, the answer seems to be easy: You replace the Gospel-fueled Great Commission with the America-centered religion of American Statism. This America-centered religion is indeed a “big tent” operation, with a wide variety of expressions and flavors. […]
How fear-fueled politics compels cowardly American Christians to choose wicked leadership. – Fire Breathing Christian Podcast Episode 7
In this installment of The Fire Breathing Christian Podcast, we begin a week-long run of diving deep into subjects and issues shaping the culture around us, beginning with America’s fear-fueled approach to politics. We examine the useful myth of “the lesser evil” and take look at how we’ve allowed fear of everything and everyone but God to […]
How’s that “lesser of two evils” sewage tasting now?
While we may be tempted to feel all dirty, discouraged and downright icky at the prospect of America (led by American evangelicals) choosing Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as this cycle’s left and right halves of the two-headed dragon that’s dragging what’s left of the culture to hell, it’s important to remember that there is much good that will – and […]
#NeverPublicSchools actually accomplishes what #BoycottTarget and #NeverTrump never will.
Things seem to be getting wackier by the minute ’round here these days in ‘Merica, and while that might sometimes seem scary, what we need to see and appreciate in this increasingly surreal time is the incredible clarity that we are being given as the bubble world fiction in which American Christians have lived for […]