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There’s more to your vote
In advance of Super Tuesday, William Milner, ELCA Hunger Advocacy Fellow, and Alex Parker, ELCA Advocacy Coordinator, with the D.C.-based staff shared election engagement reflections. By William Milner and Alex Parker You could say we’re election nerds. We’ve woken up early, gone to the polling booth to cast our votes before school and work, and afterwards, rapidly dashed home to turn on the news and watch the results pour in. One of us even remembers in middle school printing out a map of the United States so he could write in each state’s electoral college numbers and color them in…
More on classical Calvinism and Arminianism?
Out of curiosity: is anyone interested in more posts on classical Calvinism and Arminianism, and how they contrast with Evangelical Calvinism and/or Athanasian Reformed theology? I haven’t written those types of posts very much lately; I’m not even promising I will. But just curious if there is any interest in that, since that used to be the mainstay of what I engaged with. Athanasian Reformed
With Anti-Immigration Sentiments Rising, More Action is Needed
By David Atkinson For those closely following immigration issues and debates, every day can seem to be a bad news day. The diatribes by anti-immigration officials and commentators become numbing with their angry repetition. But the ingrained perspectives of the voting public can be even more troubling. We now enter the season when many organizations, on the far ends and in the middle of the political spectrum, are conducting polling to test 2024 themes and discover what might most motivate large blocs of voters. Some of these surveys square with preconceived notions or confirm what we largely suspect. Yet,…
A More Responsible Way to Think About Biblical Eschatology: Engaging with Karl Heim Through TF Torrance
The following is a repost from September 25, 2018. It is this kind of thinking that moved me from a premillennial understanding of the last times, to an amillennial perspective (although I still retain the right to a historic premillennial perspective depending on the moment). The following post sounds like I have no interest or time for paying attention to geo-political and theopolitical trends as those might or might not pertain to God’s inbreaking into the world in an end times type of way. I am a futurist, I think you have to be because Jesus was; because the Old…