The values, priorities, and character traits Jesus calls for in what's known as The Sermon on the Mount don't align well with much of what drives Americanized Christianity today. Merciful? Pure in heart? A thirst for righteousness? Hardly. Peacemakers? Willing to...
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Socrates famously declared that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living.’ It is one of the most quoted classical sayings outside the Bible, but it is followed less than it is quoted. And if Socrates is correct, it would mean that many people, even highly educated...
What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.
Wisdom is not merely knowing the right answers. It's about living rightly. from The Wisdom Pyramid
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but the opportunity to do what is right.
I love America more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. from Notes of a Native Son
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it's accepted by a majority.
You can be right about Scripture and wrong about the Gospel.