How Christian Ethics Guide Cultural Engagement

How can Christian ethics guide our engagement with U.S. culture? That is the question my students and I are exploring together this semester, seeking the ways in which various approaches to Christian ethics conflict and converge with the values of U.S. culture or...

The Things We Leave Behind

A sermon by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo. The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Luke 12:13-21 August 4, 2013 Hosea 11:1-11; Psalm 107:1-9, 43; Colossians 3:1-11 Giving a sermon on covetous greed is some better than an assignment to...

Virtues and Vices

The dictionary defines “virtue” as having to do with moral excellence, righteousness and goodness. I bring this up because William Bennett, America’s self-appointed guru of virtue demonstrated on his radio show last week that he may need a virtue...