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Can Christians Get a COVID Vaccine?

Can Christians receive a Covid vaccine with a clear conscience? Or should we refuse to be vaccinated? This has been a matter of some debate, because all of the currently available vaccines have been developed or tested using cell lines derived originally from aborted babies. Some Christians have therefore stated strong opposition to receiving a …

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Why We Plan to Get Vaccinated: A Christian Moral Perspective

Strongly held opinions about vaccines and vaccination are the subject of explosive debates in America. We expect these debates to become more intense as COVID-19 vaccines continue to be approved and distributed. Unless we consider the moral shape of the challenges confronting us as a society, we will be overwhelmed by the loud, often extreme …

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Why State Schools Need Competition—J. Gresham Machen (1881 – 1937)

On Election Day 1922, Oregon voters passed a referendum requiring all children to attend the state’s public schools. At a stroke, all Christian and private schools were declared illegal. J. Gresham Machen, Greek scholar and professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary and Westminster Theological Seminary, saw the danger in such a statute. Without Christian schools …

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Why Teach Rhetoric?

What does the word “rhetoric” mean to you? Most people associate “rhetoric” with words that are big, showy, or empty, fake, and manipulative. Why would we want to teach our children how to use words to manipulate people? As an online teacher who teaches rhetoric, I’d like to submit that rhetoric is inescapable. We are surrounded …

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Do You Agree with Jesus?

Two of Jesus’ disciples were walking along the road to Emmaus on the first resurrection Sunday, and they were distraught: “Jesus of Nazareth who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God” was dead (ESV, Luke 24:19). They “had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel” (v. 21), but now he …

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A Guilty Conscience Haunts Them—John Newton, 1751

The African sailed through the waves north of Africa with a full cargo. Her captain sat comfortably in his quarters reading his Bible and thanking God for what looked to be a profitable voyage. Considering himself one of the more humane of Britain’s slave traders, John Newton self-righteously compared himself to other captains: “A guilty conscience haunts them all,”[1] he …

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