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Thomas Sowell writes often on the powerful use to which certain people put vocabulary in manipulating the opinions of the public about complex dynamics in society. One of these manipulative uses of vocabulary concerns the use of the terms “advantages” “disadvantages” & “Privilege.” These are bumper sticker phrases...
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July 17, 2015 Andrew Sargent
Society
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For those who don’t understand why most Christians care so deeply about the same sex “marriage” issue, let me explain. My discussion is long, multiple times longer than my normal blogs, but please be patient… and I’d read the footnotes too. Be warned, I am, like you, snarky…...
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July 3, 2015 Andrew Sargent
Society
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Seems a day late and a dollar short to discuss the travesty of the last presidential election almost three years ago, but one of the reasons for the failure of conservatives and evangelical then, remains now, and is actually a bit of a staple of the conservative mind....
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June 3, 2015 Andrew Sargent
Ethics, Society
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My article “Mother’s Day Massacre: A Response to “An Open Letter to Pastors (A Non-Mom Speaks about Mother’s Day)” [1] generated as one might expect a lot of responses. Many called me names, thankfully borrowing most of them from the one’s I provided as an option in my...
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May 15, 2015 Andrew Sargent
Society
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We have a guest blogger today. Othello Mugugu who originally hails from Zimbabwe, has a Bachelors from Northpoint Bible College, Serves in the American Army, is just completing his Masters in Religious Studies from Providence College in Providence Rhode Island. He has been studying various social and ethical...
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March 27, 2015 Andrew Sargent
Ethics, Society
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I just joined Franklin Graham’s Facebook page. I’ve always admired his father for his years of tireless effort on behalf of the kingdom of God, his ability to maintain integrity and grounding in the administration of a world-wide multi-million dollar ministry, and, if not in full agreement with...
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March 23, 2015 Andrew Sargent
Communication, Society
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People are afraid of spreading diseases… naturally. The whole history of man is peppered with stories of periodic bouts with diseases that wiped out portions of the population. Bubonic Plague, Small Pox, Cholera, Yellow Fever, Tuberculosis, The 1918 outbreak of Spanish Flu, which claimed the lives of some...
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February 11, 2015 Andrew Sargent
Communication, Society
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Perhaps it’s not wise to write a blog post when one is a bit irritated and less than amused, but… what the hay! In a recent Facebook exchange over a presently undisclosed topic of controversy, a non-Christian friend of mine, an intelligent person with a keen wit (both...
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August 4, 2014 Andrew Sargent
Biblical Studies, Communication, New Testament Studies, Society
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FACT: We, as a nation, CANNOT simultaneously maintain anti-discrimination laws, religious freedom & gay marriage. We must choose… but which should we choose, and how should we choose? This, of course, forces a real & practical distinction between two different kinds of anti-discrimination laws. 1. Laws that forbid...
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June 2, 2014 Andrew Sargent
Society
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The World Vision debacle is the latest and hottest scandal in Christendom. In spite of their faith statement claiming to be an organization of individuals dedicated to the Bible as “…the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God,” and to Jesus Christ as “central to who we...
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March 31, 2014 Andrew Sargent
Society
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I must confess, I did not watch the recent televised and much talked about creation debate between Answers in Genesis founder, Ken Ham and, local TV legend, Bill Nye the science guy…aside from a few clips here and there. I did, however, read a good deal about it...
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February 20, 2014 Andrew Sargent
Biblical Studies, Old Testament Studies, Society
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Benjamin Corey is a once upon a time “fundamentalist” who shifted to being a “Christian Progressive” when he began attending Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2008. He accredits this shift not to GCTS, which is conservative, generally, but to his increased reading of Scripture, citing a recent Christianity Today...
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January 23, 2014 Andrew Sargent
Biblical Studies, Biblical Theology, Communication, HAGALAH, Society
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There are several parts of MLK’s great “I have a dream” speech that are of crucial importance in an age where “Freedom” and “Justice” have been redefined as “rights to have without work” rather than “rights to work to achieve.” Where they have become not “rights to be judged by the quality...
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January 20, 2014 Andrew Sargent
Society
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Here is just one expert from a true philosophical masterpiece on issues of social justice. Thomas Sowell in The Quest for Cosmic Justice pages 78-79 considers the dangers of misguided envy as promoted by warped visions of reality in many pursuits of Social Justice. “For the currently less...
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January 13, 2014 Andrew Sargent
Society
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In his book THE QUEST FOR COSMIS JUSTICE, Sowell discusses the internal demand by many to forcibly equalize every inequality, even natural inequalities. Equality has become, not about processes and essence of humanity, but about final outcomes. Some pursue this form of “social justice,” with abandon, as if...
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December 19, 2013 Andrew Sargent
Society
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http://sarahchristineschwartz.com/2013/11/06/brothers-i-am-sorry To the author of “Brothers, I am Sorry,” which you can read at the above address. Dear Sarah, you are young, and have much to learn about the difference between reasons and excuses, what we wish about reality and what is reality. While I, like you, was not...
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December 5, 2013 Andrew Sargent
Society
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I have had the honor of being a guest blogger at Scribblepreach, a blog about preaching, writing, and other aspects of communication. I recommend it. My post is called Safari Guide, Treasure Hunter, Biblical Theologian You can find it at…. http://scribblepreach.com/2013/11/22/guest-blog-safari-guide-treasure-hunter-biblical-theologian/
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November 23, 2013 Andrew Sargent
Communication, Contexualization, Society
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I was at a low place one Father’s Day when I’d first begun my PhD. I did not know it at the time, but I was six months down my four year road with sleep apnea, which came on suddenly after a severe illness and ended just as...
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November 7, 2013 Andrew Sargent
Society
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I have been greatly enriched by the writings of Thomas Sowell. Here is another great little article by the man. http://drudgegae.iavian.net/r?hop=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/22/sowell-the-race-hustlers-among-us/
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October 29, 2013 Andrew Sargent
Society
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Yes, I know that the constant attempt by various fields of scientific study to catalogue diseases by symptoms rather than isolated causes often leads to shifting labels and that split personalities, what is now referred to as Dissociative Identity Disorder, is no longer catalogued as a form of...
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October 10, 2013 Andrew Sargent
Communication, Society
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