Just over 75 years ago some very brave and passionate young people were executed in Germany for daring to resist Hitler and the Nazis. Two…
OK, I thought I had finished writing about Tommy Robinson, his jailing, and the plight of young girls targeted by rape gangs in the UK.…
Many folks, if asked to name a religious figure who opposed Hitler and the Nazis, would be able to name Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The Lutheran pastor…
As the West grows increasingly darker, more ungodly, indeed more anti-God, more immoral, more culturally bankrupt, and more hostile to what so many of us…
The perennial question of if and when a Christian should disobey an unjust law and engage in civil disobedience has certainly come to the fore…
Political prisoner Kim Davis knows all about unjust laws, and the criminalisation of Christianity. She is not the first, nor will she be the last…
I have included this passage of Scripture in my series of difficult Bible texts not so much because it is quite difficult to grasp or…
There are all sorts of good reasons why Christians should gravitate toward the more conservative side of politics, economics, and social thought. The case for…
This is another Bible passage which is not so much difficult as one which has been badly handled, poorly interpreted, and often wrongly applied. The…
The West over the centuries has gone through various phases which in broad-brush fashion can be characterised as follows: from pagan to Christian to post-Christian…
The topic of a just revolution is one which has long been debated in the Christian church. In addition to some of the key Christian…
How should believers think about the state? Is there one type of government better than another? Can believers endorse all types or forms of governments?…
Much ink has been spilled on the ethics of civil disobedience, and whether it is ever justified. People of various belief systems have struggled with…
Throughout history civil disobedience (that is, the public, nonviolent conscientious resistance to, or breaking of, a law deemed to be unjust) has been engaged in.…