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Actually Shane Claiborne, Christians Should Support Capital Punishment

All Christians Should Support Capital Punishment Shane Claiborne- a social justice activist, a progressive Christian who runs the Simple Way community in Philadelphia, and an author who published Executing Grace earlier this summer about the death penalty- was recently interviewed…

Derryck GreenAugust 17, 2016

Politics

Evangelical Outrage Against Trump; Why Not Clinton?

Last Thursday, as Donald Trump finished his hour-long speech where he formally accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for the presidency, he thanked the evangelical Christians who supported his candidacy, helping make his quest for the nomination possible. Trump graciously said,…

Derryck GreenJuly 28, 2016

Islamic Terrorism Politics

Sorry, Jen Hatmaker: Christians Aren’t Complicit in Orlando

Since ISIS-sympathizer Omar Mateen murdered 49 people and injured 50 more at an Orlando, Florida nightclub, many Christians have been offering their sympathy and prayers for the families who lost their loved ones during the shooting rampage early Sunday morning.…

Derryck GreenJune 16, 2016

Politics Religion

Rob Schenck Is Wrong. One Can Be Pro-Life and ‘Pro-Gun’

Last week Reverend Rob Schenck, an evangelical Christian, published a morally confusing, anti-firearm piece in the Washington Post. Specifically, the article’s tenor held that Christians couldn’t be pro-life if they were pro-gun. He claimed that one couldn’t be both pro-life and…

Derryck GreenJanuary 6, 2016

Politics Race Religion

InterVarsity Seduced by #BlackLivesMatter, Compartmentalized “Justice”

Despite the contradiction between its activist agenda and what the name of the organization (and hashtag) superficially implies, the social current of #BlackLivesMatter has successfully swallowed many churches and Christian organizations in its supposed quest for racial and social “justice.”…

Derryck GreenJanuary 4, 2016

Faith Politics Religion

Christians Should Not Encourage Resistance to Police

The latest in the ongoing, media-created narrative regarding the disproportionate incidents of police brutality against black Americans involves a pool party in a suburban area of McKinney, Texas — the video expected to go viral. Time and again, people are…

Derryck GreenJune 28, 2015

Faith Politics Religion

Contrasting Post Charleston Sermons

Last weekend, Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, held its first church service since the massacre that claimed the lives of nine members of its congregation. Rev. Norvell Goff- preaching because the church’s regular pastor, Rev. Clementa C.…

Derryck GreenJune 28, 2015

Education Politics

Democrats Don’t Want Poor Kids To Have A Good Education

Barack Obama and his party continually pitch themselves as the defenders and the political party of the poor. To look at the picture they paint, only they are looking out for the best interests of those living in poverty. Conservatives and Republicans on the…

Derryck GreenMay 4, 2015

Culture Politics Race

Another Episode of Black Moral Chaos

What’s been allowed to happen in Baltimore is a moral and cultural abomination. Once again, so-called activists, a large number of them black, have been allowed to attack and assault police officers in addition to destroying public and private…

Derryck GreenApril 28, 2015

Politics

Sorry- You Can’t Demand A Wage You’re Not Worth

I’m sure you’ve seen fast food workers and their sympathizers “demonstrating” as they demand to be paid a wage higher than their skill set currently allows. Rather than be content with their current wage earnings, protestors are attempting to force…

Derryck GreenApril 17, 2015

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