Church-State Religious Accommodation: Reflections on Groff v. DeJoy
The coming months will bring attention to the biggest cases the Supreme Court is hearing this term, including issues like abortion, Chevron deference, consumer protection, Donald Trump, gerrymandering, guns (bump stock), social media, and more. As we prepare for the holdings on these cases, I thought it would be good to reflect on an important decision from last summer: Groff v. DeJoy. Groff did not receive as much attention as the...
On the Grief of Animal Death
Grief Grief is no respecter of person or of time. It is not convenient but slaps you across the face at a moment’s notice. It is not unlike the thief in the night. All of life is but a vapor, here today and gone tomorrow (James 4:14). Undoubtedly, each situation is, in its own way, distinct, but the constant is grief. It comes in all shapes and sizes and levels of intensity, whether from the death of a loved one or the death of a pet...
Interview about F. Leroy Forlines’s “Secularism and the American Republic”
Last week we published a book review of F. Leroy Forlines’s newest publication, Secularism and the American Republic. This week we post an interview between its editor, Matthew Steven Bracey, and Eddie Moody, Executive Secretary of the National Association of Free Will Baptists, who hosts the Better Together Podcast. Moody asks Bracey about what led Forlines to pursue this topic, what Forlines’s hope for the book was, as well as about...
HSF Conversations: Secularism and the American Republic
In this episode of HSF Conversations, Phillip Morgan interviews Matthew Steven Bracey about the most recent publication from F. Leroy Forlines, Secularism and the American Republic: Revisiting Thomas Jefferson on Church and State. Matthew worked closely with Mr. Forlines in the publication of this project, as well as edited the book. People interested in questions of church and state, religious liberty, and the American founding will...
Antinomianism and Reformed Arminianism
by Richard E. Clark Some may be tempted to think the following: Since Reformed Arminians teach that apostasy may occur only by the renunciation of faith, then antinomianism (a lifestyle characterized by sin) is compatible with final salvation in Reformed Arminian theology. This correlation is simply not the case. The person may never have been saved. Additionally, a person that was saved through saving faith, confessing Christ as both...
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