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Showing posts with label Protecting the Innocent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protecting the Innocent. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Sermon Video: A Grieving Abraham is Swindled - Genesis 22:20-23:20

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Following the death of his beloved wife Sarah, Abraham seeks to buy a plot of land from his neighbors for her tomb.  For both religious and ...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

What the furor over the Witch Walk in Franklin can teach us about Christian cultural engagement

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Downtown Franklin during last year's Witch Walk As many of you in the Franklin area will have noticed, a post on the St. Patrick Parish ...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020

When is governmental action morally justified? The morality of COVID-19 responses to protect less than 1%.

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This is a serious question, I'm actually curious about what you would answer: Given that as of today, 10/13/20, there have been at least...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

The SBC dis-fellowships a church which continues to employ a child-sex offender as their pastor: a step in the right direction, but not enough.

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Christianity Today reported on the outcome of a recent SBC Executive Committee meeting: Southern Baptists Disfellowship Church Over Abuse fo...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

After another mass shooting, what can be said?

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Update: This post was originally written in August of 2019 after mass shootings occurred on consecutive days: The El Paso, Texas Walmart sho...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Would you tell your daughter NOT to report being raped?

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There are a number of practical and societal reasons why someone (male or female) might resist reporting a sexual assault, from the fear of ...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

When a church fails to protect the innocent...

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Tennessee pastor apologizes for 'sexual incident' with teen - Article on CNN Having read this story, plus much of the linked mater...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Sermon Video: God Hates Divorce - Malachi 2:13-16

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We all know that God "is love", even those who rarely, if ever, attend church seem to know that, but does God "hate" too...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Apes, children, and the value of life.

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There was a recent incident at the zoo in Cincinnati, Ohio, involving a three-year-old child falling into the gorilla enclosure and the subs...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

In Defense of Morality: The War on Terror and Strategic Bombing in WWII

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It is rare, sadly, to find someone interested in what the perspective of history has to teach us about current events, politicians seem part...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Too dangerous to let them live?

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Nicole and I went to the Tuesday evening cheap movies, as is our habit when there is something worth seeing, to see Insurgent , the second i...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Sermon Video: Athaliah chooses power over children - 2 Chronicles 22

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How does someone who values human life, from conception until natural death, understand the thinking of someone who is convinced that abort...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

The Shame of Joe Paterno

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There is no excuse.  That the family is trying to spin the Freeh report to protect his "legacy" is only adding to the shame he des...