Big Government/Small Government: Is Size a Real Faith Issue?
BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- Is the size of government a faith issue? It is certainly a perennial political issue and the current discussions....
Presidential Politics, Big Military and Jesus
BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- Early this week the presidential candidates got to debate about foreign policy as...
Robbing the Rich: Biblical Concern or Political Preoccupation?
BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- Humans are stewards rather than full owners of the property they hold. Rather....
Religious Entitlement and the Protests in the Middle East
BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- It is with sadness and distress that I view the violent protests that have...
Why Abortion Should Not Be Politically Decisive for Christians
BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- I recall years ago on the Sunday before a national election a surprise awaited members of...
Covetous Leaders: How the Religious Right gets it Exactly Wrong
The authors of the Bible did not write with a constitutional democracy in mind. Nevertheless scripture offers guidance that can be useful to us in our own present situation. Though the Bible has nothing t...
Commendable in an Age of Short Cuts: Kings, Presidents and Prophets
The Presidential campaign has reached a fever-pitch. Exaggeration, half-truths and lies abound as each party scratches and claws toward election day in hopes of victory. It seems that truth in political campai...
Slandering the Poor: An Exercise in Self-Righteousness
In the minds of some people any reference to the hard working poor is an oxymoron. Being poor and being hard working are mutually exclusive to them. People are poor quite simply because they refuse to exert the...
Fraudulent Freedom and the Needs of the Poor
To claim Jesus called people to voluntarily help the poor and needy is true. But to go beyond that assertion and claim Jesus wouldn't support – and we shouldn't support – helping the poor through taxe...
Is Patriotism Really Christian?
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