by Matthew J. Tuininga | Nov 6, 2017 | Opinion
Christians have sometimes claimed that the eighth commandment, “You shall not steal,” forbids government from ever mandating the redistribution of wealth for the sake of the poor. According to this interpretation, the status quo is the result of...
by Matthew J. Tuininga | Aug 7, 2017 | Opinion
One of the dismaying trends within evangelical Protestantism in America is the growing divide between those evangelicals who emphasize the church’s responsibility to proclaim a gospel of individual conversion and those who emphasize the church’s...
by Matthew J. Tuininga | Apr 12, 2017 | Opinion
I’ve been preparing to explore the theme of “Good News for the Poor” with my seminary ethics class as the U.S. Congress has been debating changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. One of the things I do with my students is to walk through the...
by Matthew J. Tuininga | Feb 14, 2017 | Opinion
How should the church respond to President Trump’s travel ban? I began wrestling with this question when I read about two Christian families from Syria one recent Sunday morning. After working to attain permission to come to America, they were told upon arriving...