All We Need Is Love, But What Is It?
Happy late Valentine’s Day, the day of the year where everyone focuses on “love.” But do we really understand what love is? We hear the phrase thrown around a lot today that “Love is love.” Is that true? What is love, and how do we properly love others? Dr. Timothy Brown, Director of Southern Evangelical […]
The Moral Argument for God’s Existence: Some Thomistic Natural Law Musings
Enjoy this blog pulled from the SES archives by Dr. Richard Howe, originally published at richardghowe.com. In continuing my discussion on theistic arguments, I would be remiss if I said nothing about the moral argument—surely the most popular argument for God’s existence currently making the rounds. Perhaps the most familiar, cogently set forth, and adroitly […]
Why is abandoning the rule of law so dangerous?
When the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia concluded in September 1787 and sent the Constitution to the various states for ratification, Benjamin Franklin was reportedly asked, “Dr. Franklin, what kind of government have you given us?” Franklin replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it!” That exchange has possessed enough historical cache that new Supreme Court […]
How Should Christians Disagree About Important Things?
This past week the Evangelical world has reverberated with a debate by two of Evangelicaldom’s most illustrious, influential, and popular theologians: John Piper and Wayne Grudem. On October 22, John Piper wrote an article, “Policies, Persons, and Paths to Ruin: Pondering the Implications of the 2020 Elections.” In which he explains why he would not […]
Five Reasons Abortion is Murder: The Killing of an Innocent Human Being
For whatever reason, I missed taking an ethics class in college. My speech class came with a list of topics we could not give a speech on. Abortion was at the top of the list which was not alphabetical. Every other class that might have touched on the topic, avoided the issue as well. Regardless […]
Upcoming Course: Christian Theology, Racism, and Social Justice
Writing on scraps of paper, without notes or references, from a Birmingham jail cell, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously penned these words, “I would agree with St. Augustine that ‘an unjust law is no law at all.’ … To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human […]
