The Far Green Country

Those familiar with the electioneering of former American President Bill Clinton will remember the primacy given to the economy in his bid for the presidency.  His strategist, James Carville, knew that they could never beat a successful war-time president on issues such as global security or national defense.  In order to win, their campaign would [...]

“But because the conscience is often in the dark, therefore a man may be alarmed with evil in the court of conscience, as if he were justly to expect a stroke from God because of his sin, and some quarrel God hath at him, although he intend salvation for him. That is enough to keep [...]

“Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect. The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones. We tend to draw conservative, buttoned-down, moralistic people. The licentious and [...]