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Three New Testament Roots of Economic Liberty

  • Economics,
  • Religion
May 20, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We do not often think that Jesus Christ and the New Testament justifies capitalism.  To the extent that capitalism means greed and self-indulgence, I should think not!  Greed and self-indulgence are root human sins and will be manifested in any […]

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Which Western Civilization? We’re on our Third One. 

  • Culture,
  • Religion
March 8, 2019December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

These days many people are trying to defend ‘Western Civilization’.  Yet, at the moment, Western Civilization seems to be moving into Version 3.0, and the form it will take is not fully clear.  So what, actually, are they trying to […]

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Some Kind of Christmas Tree

  • Religion
January 2, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We were planning to be abroad this Christmas, but our plans changed.  It was just our nuclear family, so we didn’t get a tree; but I found this in our room and brought it down.  I thought we needed some […]

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The Sin of Entitlement

  • Religion
August 22, 2018January 4, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Early in my Christian life I was struck by a fascinating quote in C. S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letter #21.  On the sin of peevishness, he wrote, Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury.  And […]

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What Christian Reconstruction Gave Me

  • Religion
August 14, 2018March 31, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

As everyone who investigates me online knows, in my 30s I was a Christian Reconstructionist.  Part of the appeal of that to younger people in that era was the specific blueprints for society and personal action that seemed to fill […]

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The Theonomization of Anabaptism

  • Religion
March 23, 2018August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

At the time of the Reformation, certain groups emerged which said that one ought to be baptized again [despite one’s infant baptism] when one came to conscious faith in Christ.  Therefore, they were called Anabaptists, which means ‘again-baptizers’.  But they […]

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A Letter about ‘Freedom’ and Christianity

  • Religion
March 3, 2018August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have wrestled with the tensions between Christianity and ‘freedom’; and they have been a major part of my thinking, at times even an obsession.  So I think it’s time that I told my whole story and thinking about this […]

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Time to Stop Using Political Terminology for Theological and Moral Views

  • Religion
December 11, 2017August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Some portions of the American church, it is asserted, have gotten much more politicized in recent years.  It is at the point where many want to ditch the word ‘evangelical’, because ‘evangelical’ is seen by the public as a political […]

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Drawing Lines: The Fences of the Church

  • Religion
September 6, 2017August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The modern Church tries to be open to as many as possible, in order that as many as possible might hear the Gospel.  Jim Belcher has written about a model of the Church not as a fenced enclosure but as a […]

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Did the New Testament Prophesy Islam?

  • Religion
August 16, 2017August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Muslims sometimes claim that the coming of Muhammad is prophesied in John 14 under the name of the Helper.  I doubt this; there is not a lot of similarity between the actual work of Muhammad and how the Helper is […]

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