The teaching course on government and accountability in congregations is called polity. To graduate and be ordained in the association I joined (Presbyterian, 1972), I had to take a course in polity. My first congregation, The First Hebrew Christian Church in …
Recently a conservative who was speaking against woke-ism was asked to define it. He hemmed and hawed when trying to define it, but I did not blame him. It is complex and not easy to define. Woke-ism is a combination …
Some Christian Zionists and some Messianic Jews have a very strident position on possessing the Land promised to our people. Their attitude is to take all the Land and don’t worry much about the Arab population in Samaria and Judea. …
Recently there were two media reports that show world view implications. In the first report a Catholic school in Canada suspended a student who said that the Bible teaches that there are two sexes and there are not other genders …
It is commonly taught that we are seeing a lineup of nations against Israel, a setup that seems like a replay of the first century but with one amazing difference. Instead of Jerusalem’s destruction, the last days’ final war against …
It was the end of October 1967. I was in a time of great skepticism as I worked hard on courses in my junior year at Wheaton College. A chapel forum included the pastor of a nearby church who claimed …
Some years ago a group of atheists, agnostic leaders, and scholars got together and produced a Humanist Manifesto. It was first written in the 1930s but was later revised in the 1970s. Though the humanists say it is not a …
My followers are usually very interested in Israel and know there is quite a controversy about judicial reform in Israel. The divide is intense. To put this in a better perspective, it is worthwhile to review the system in the …
I believe we are seeing trends and events today that could mean that we are very close to the return of Yeshua. I was recently at a convocation-dialogue with 40 key Church leaders and Messianic Jewish leaders, including leaders of …
One of the challenges of the new more radical right-wing government is the great power of the Nationalist Orthodox and the Ultra-Orthodox in the Israel coalition. There are two overlapping issues. First, these parties want to change the law with …