Thoughts on Philosophy, Theology, Politics, & Economics — Sometimes All at Once

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James E. Bruce

Professor of Philosophy at John Brown University, Director of the Center for Faith and Flourishing, and Associate Pastor at Covenant Church, Fayetteville.

Christianity and Equality: Why Bother?

Christianity and Equality: Why Bother?

What causes people to leave the church: evolution, the sexual revolution, or something else? Perhaps all of the above. But let me offer an additional reason why people abandon Christianity: equality. Not every kind of equality casts doubts on Christianity’s core doctrines, but some do.

From John Keats’s “To Autumn”

From John Keats’s “To Autumn”

Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,— While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking