by Ron Henzel | Oct 10, 2018 | Free Speech, Freedom, Offended, Offending Words, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives
I would be very interested to know what the weather was like in Washington, DC on Thursday, May 22, 1856. It had been an unusually long winter across the Midwest and Eastern seaboard of the United States that year. The capital itself had seen remarkably cold...
by Ron Henzel | Aug 2, 2018 | Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms, Emerging Church
For most of the 20th century, American evangelicals became increasingly out-of-touch with something that served as one of the most important sources of theological cohesiveness for the previous 1,700 years: the historic creeds. Many Bible-believing Christians still...
by Ron Henzel | May 17, 2018 | Bebbington Quadrilateral, Carl Trueman, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Evangelical, Mark Noll
In 1980 I was a newlywed working as a bank coin teller. There were a lot of silver coins in circulation back then, and the price of silver was skyrocketing toward an all-time high. At one point I sold roll of silver dimes (face value: $5.00) to a coin dealer across...
by Ron Henzel | Nov 9, 2017 | Forgiveness, Genocide, Gun Control, Mass Shootings
In the wake of yet another horrific mass shooting, this time at a church in Texas, a journalist posed a question to me and several other of her Facebook friends who are engaged in one or another type of Christian ministry: “How do you balance forgiveness and...
by Ron Henzel | Aug 19, 2017 | Progressives, Satire
It’s never too late to add a new hymn to our hymnals. And what better way to do it by updating an old melody with lyrics suited to the present socio-political realities that each of us face each and every day? With that in mind, we’ve taken a classic tune...
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