Theocracy and the Tijuana Brass

Introduction: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Gospel Coalition and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission are holding a conference in April to commemorate it (MLK50: Reflections from the Mountaintop). Anticipating the conference, earlier this week Russell Moore took the opportunity of MLK day to write …

People Love Writing Tomes About Theocracy

Russell Moore & Theocracy: Sir, I read Russell Moore’s article regarding theocracy that you linked to, and I am a bit aghast. How can anyone who has read the Bible make any such blanket and universal condemnation against theocracy in any and every form (i.e., his critique “also is true of every theocracy.”)? Does Mr. …

Sinning Right and Left

“Incidentally, I am making this argument so that Christians may call their leaders to righteousness, whether those leaders are Republicans or Democrats. I am not assuming that only Democrats are guilty of this kind of hypocrisy—far from it. When these words were first written, the present writer was being represented in the United States Senate …