“We are against Halloween,” one minister recently told me. This is a common response I get from folks in the church. That, and: “We are against homosexuals, abortion, environmentalists, liberals, social-gospel types, postmodernists, illegal immigrants, people-who-worship-like-that, health-care reform, and redistribution.” As some Christians follow in the footsteps of partisan politicians, it remains an easy habitContinue reading “Redefining Christian Witness”
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The Texas Textbook Massacre
At the beginning of every high school history class I ever taught, I did a lesson on the goals of learning history. Some goals are obvious—to know our past, for instance; others are subtle, like the fact that learning history encourages critical thinking. This past week, the Texas Board of Education voted on a controversialContinue reading “The Texas Textbook Massacre”
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