Reflections on the Taylor Civil Rights Tour
Last month I participated in a Civil Rights Tour put on by Taylor University. Various leaders from Taylor led a group of alumni, faculty, staff, students, and other friends through the South to major points of interest related to the struggles for Civil Rights in America. I am always eager to learn new things, and I was excited to get a chance to spend significant time immersing myself in the issues that so divide our nation these days. On the trip, we visited the Civil Righ
Five Christian Views of Social Justice: A Review Essay
If you are a Christian concerned with social justice, here is a must-read text for you: Christian Faith and Social Justice: Five Views (Bloomsbury, 2014). The book brings together five respected Christian scholars who present and debate rival perspectives on the issue in a dialogical format. As is the standard approach with such multiple views books, each author contributes a foundational essay which is in turn critiqued by the other authors, thus enabling the reader to get
Abortion: The Preeminent Social Justice Issue
The currently prevailing conception of social justice is convoluted. It seems that what it means to be just conveniently lines up with current cultural leanings or one’s political allegiances. Our culture is intoxicated with a sense of moral superiority and the notion of one’s opponents being “on the wrong side of history,” and this reinforces ingrained political views in a way that can dangerously undermine biblical truth. While there is much to be said about a Scriptural de