Church, Politics, and Culture

Drowning Out the Truth

Denise Paolucci wants to hand out iPods to Texas women who want an abortion so they won't have to hear the sound of their baby's heartbeat during the mandatory pre-procedure ultrasound. Eric Metaxes has a great column on the subject, drawing an apt parallel between...

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Don’t Dream Away the Hand that Saved You

The clip is taken from the August 29, 2011 episode of Australian X Factor. If you don't want to take time to watch the whole thing, here is a quick summary:Emmanuel Kelly, a young man with obvious limb deficiencies, receives polite applause as he limps to the...

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The Pastor that Rejected Christianity

The Don Johnson Show, 3-15-12 Don talks with Wes, a secular humanist chaplain. Wes recently rejected Christianity after 10 years as an evangelical pastor. He has a B.A. in Biblical Studies with a minor in philosophy from Dallas Baptist University and an M.A. in...

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Life, Thrown Over the Fence

The Don Johnson Show, 9-19-11 Don and Brandon find it hard to argue with the logic of Justice Joanne Veit, who gave Katrina Effert a suspended sentence instead of prison time for strangling her baby boy to death and throwing the body over the fence into the neighbors...

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Christian vs Worldly Definitions of Love

Some reflections on Kierkegaard's Works of Love: As a full-time evangelist, I spend much of my time interacting with atheists and other unbelievers, trying to convince them that Christianity is true and that they should follow Jesus. As a result, I am often charged...

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Europe’s Real Problem

From Mark Steyn's great new book, After America: [T]he self extinction of Europe is not just a matter of economics. Advanced social democracies don't need a value added tax; they need a value added life...Europe's economic crisis is a mere symptom of its economic...

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Murder in a Meaningless Universe

The Don Johnson Show, 1-17-11 On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, at least one segment of the black community is not living the dream. Michael Shermer advises us to quit looking for meaning in life and in the process finds moral equivalence between Jared Loughner's...

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Why Ricky Gervais Needs to Re-think His Atheism

The Don Johnson Show, 12-20-10 Don and Brandon talk about the difference between emotional and intellectual doubt, then tackle Ricky Gervais' defense of atheism in the Wall Street Journal. Don argues that Mr. Gervais is typical of many atheists: he does not understand...

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Slandering the Righteous

The anti-religion crowd sure spends a lot of time and energy trying to make spiritual leaders look bad. (Really, Christopher Hitchens, a screed against Mother Theresa?) This is nothing new, of course, and neither is the reason for it: bringing down the saints is...

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The Demise of Biblical Preaching

I posted a link to this article over on my facebook page and got a couple of good comments, but I couldn't privde links in my response, so I brought it over here. Dan wrote: I would tend to agree with the entertainment portion but I am not really sure that using what...

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The Nanny State as a Religion

Mark Steyn is a genius. I recommend everything he has written, but today these two columns on health care and the effects of big government on a society are especially relevant: The Nationalization of Your Body Men are From Venus A sampling: In a nanny state, big...

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The Gospel According to Obama

Saw this theological comment in support of Obamacare on Facebook: "I think Matthew 19:21 and Matthew 25:35 are [good] verses for what Obama is doing." Must be reading from the New Obama Version: Matthew 19:21: "If you want to be perfect, go take someone else's...

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God, Freedom, and Obamacare

The Don Johnson Show, 3-22-10 Don and Brandon rant about Obamacare while answering listener questions and comments. They discuss, among other things, whether the New Testament supports nationalized health care, how Christians should respond to the fall of the American...

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Can One be Talked Out Of Being a Christian?

The Don Johnson Show, 2-22-10 Don and Brandon talk with caller Brian about whether it is possible to be "talked out of" being a Christian. More on the Dark Ages in which we currently live, including a reference to a NY Times piece on kids and boredom and a story about...

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On MLK, Avatar, and The Finger of God

The Don Johnson Show, 1-18-10 Don and Brandon discuss Martin Luther King Jr.'s beliefs about extremism and his enemies, the message of Avatar and the alleged miracles chronicled in the documentary The Finger of God.

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Living in Slavery while Believing You’re Free

The Don Johnson Show, 12-14-09 Don and Brandon clarify some points they made last week about the Manhattan Declaration, discuss the meaning of freedom according to Jesus and answer a listener question about the use of icons in worship, among other things. Along the...

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The Manhattan Declaration and More

The Don Johnson Show, 12-7-09 Don and Brandon answer some listener questions about seeking meaning in life and whether or not Christianity makes extraordinary claims that require extraordinary evidence. They also discuss The Manhattan Declaration, a recently released...

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Don’t Try This at Home

The Don Johnson Show, 9-28-09 Don and Brandon discuss: An atheist's attempt to defend religion. The Episcopal Church's attempt to attract more young people. A pastor's attempt to connect Barack Obama and the Antichrist. (Here is John Mark Reynold's excellent piece on...

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