Inbox: Isn't the embrace of Christian Nonviolence a case of over-realized eschatology?

It can be among those who argue for it in universal terms, who insist on it for the nations this side of glory. Or to put it differently, they too are Transformationalists of a kind who believe the Kingdom is expressed in terms of worldly power, politics, and culture.

Mendacity and Distortion: Another Mark Tooley Commentary

https://www.christianpost.com/voices/the-death-of-christian-pacifism.html

Tooley's powers of perception must immediately be questioned when he asserts that Neo-Anabaptist Christian Pacifism was so prevalent in 2015. The position has always been (since the fourth century) an almost inconsequential minority at best.

Trump +1294: The Rubicon

Our area is flooded with signs and flags: Trump 2020: No More Bulls---

But with Trump, that's all you get. What a strange moment – the candidate Evangelicals continue to rally around, the same Evangelicals who decried the degradation of the presidential office under Clinton, has brought the office lower than it has ever been in history. For those old enough to remember, can you even imagine such a moment that the unofficial 'Christian' candidate would have an unofficial campaign slogan like that?

Citizenship and Travel in the Coming Dystopia

https://www.politico.eu/article/future-passports-biometric-risk-profiles-the-codes-we-carry/

Is it the Mark of the Beast? Actually no, but I'm still not doing it. I'm not a Dispensationalist looking for a One World Government and a Seven Year Tribulation but at the same time this sort of technology and the way it's being used is certainly bestial.

Inbox: What can the Uighurs do?

Given the magnitude of the Chinese clampdown in the Xinjiang region, the Uighur people face unimaginable pressure to abandon their culture and embrace a Han Chinese identity. Beijing's campaign will within a generation all but eliminate Uighur culture. While they are a Muslim population, from a Christian perspective the ethics of resistance are worth exploration. This is all the more true when we apply the same categories to the Church in the People's Republic and even (to some degree) the events taking place in Hong Kong.

As Christians, how can we analyse such situations and how would we respond in accord with the ethics of the New Testament?

Facial Recognition and the March Toward Dystopia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/07/fbi-ice-find-state-drivers-license-photos-are-gold-mine-facial-recognition-searches/

Law enforcement is just helping itself to our personal data. And they're not collecting it and sifting it because they suspected you did something. They're just running your data through their filters and algorithms... because they can.

An Oft Repeated and Heretical Lie

I was reading the latest issue of the Evangelical Times and as usual I have come to expect a bit of mixed bag. I read it for the information knowing full well that I will often disagree with much of the analysis and many of the assumptions.

The Blind and Dangerous Hypocrisy of Sacralism

https://www.christianpost.com/news/arrogantly-invoking-god-foreign-policy-debates-blasphemous-christian-historian-walter-russell-mead-228370/

As a Christian, this article made me quite angry but I am thankful that Walter Russell Mead and Mary Habeck are clear in what they advocate. Though couched in deceitful terms and reliant upon a perversion of Christian doctrine, their transparent idealism accommodates an attempt to expose their error and indeed the evil they advocate. And it is just that. Their form and framing of it and their ideals that govern them are especially pernicious in that their agenda is promoted in the name of Christ.