Join The Resistance

After the capitulation of France to Hitler’s Germany in World War II, loyal and freedom-loving Frenchmen formed a group called “The Resistance” which did its best to destabilize the new “French-Nazi” government. They assassinated Nazis and traitors, destroyed ammunitio…

A Note on Totalitarianism and Human Rights

In her fascinating work The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1966 ed.), Hannah Arendt observes: The Declaration of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It…

The Leading of the Spirit and the Lunacy of the Saints

The Spirit leads — All sorts of shenanigans flourish under the guise of “deep spirituality.” One of the most frequent these days is the so-called “leading of the Spirit.” The Bible, of course, explicitly teaches that God’s children “are led…

The Sanctity of Life Versus the Sanctity of Law

While they often do not possess a carefully articulated and principled theological approach to their opposition to abortion, the evangelicals have apparently picked up by osmosis the Roman Catholic idea of the repudiation of abortion on the grounds of “sanctity…

Beware of Narrow Interests

In the Christian Faith, not seeing the forest for the trees can be dangerous, even lethal. Unfortunately Christianity for the last century has mostly tended to an increasing reduction of the range of Christian interests which have only recently been…

Letter to the National Reform Association

October 31, 1994 Dear Board Members: The temporary tailspin occasioned by Jerry Bowyer’s resignation as executive director last winter is over. Jerry did yeomanly service for the NRA, as did Tony Cowley in the office of president during the late…

When Old Is New And New Is Old

People ignorant of history are at a serious disadvantage in assessing ideas, philosophies, teachings, ideologies, and movements. They often have the bad habit of thinking their beliefs and practices are somehow historic, and that anybody who introduces different ideas and…

A Critique of Christian Non-Theonomic Conceptions of Civil Government

A Position Paper of the Ohio Center of Policy Studies The topic of the Christian’s responsibility to lay the Biblical claims of righteousness before an ungodly society naturally leads to questions concerning civic law. For example, should Christians within a…

Confessional Postmillennialism

Eschatology, “the study of the last things or of the future generally,“1 is a divisive issue, even-perhaps especially-among conservative Christians. The principal source of contention is usually the relation of the second coming (or, if one is dispensational, comings) of…

Profits of Doom

Doomsday-ism can be a profitable business. Some TV and radio evangelists have built their entire “ministries” on predicting the coming of Christ “just around the corner” (and “re-predicting” the return when the original date didn’t fly). In his November, 1990…