Hello! I’ve been away a long time. Many things have taken up my time, including getting my second PhD and starting (yet again) a major new career path.

I’ve decided to discontinue my July 4 series – I’ll return to that subject when I feel confident I have more to say that’s worth saying – but I’ll try to post links here when I publish things.

Speaking of which!

Should pastors preach on specific political issues? I say, “yes, but…“

The goal of Christian social ethics is not to gain power and impose our ways on our neighbors by force. It is to offer the world the holy love of Christ in the form of a better social ethic. We want to have a Christian approach to war in the Middle East or IVF procedures not so we can force that way on others, but so we can offer others an ethic that embodies God’s love and holiness—which it does precisely because it is powered by the Holy Spirit rather than by political ambition.

Witness is not for ethics, ethics is for witness, and witness is for worship and discipleship.

That and much more in the post – check it out, and many thanks to TEDS for inviting me to contribute!