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Starbucks, Homosexuality and Forgiveness

By Nick-Don at Theopolitical Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, was scheduled to speak at an event called Global Leadership Summit, hosted at Willow Creek Community Church. Summit is a conference about leadership and chu…
Obama, Ramadan and 9/11

By Nick-Don at Theopolitical Obama recently hosted an Iftar dinner at the White House. (Iftar is the traditional light meal offered at the end of the fasting day during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.) Members of the d…
Social Penance: The Church Accountable?

By Nick-Don at Theopolitical Torture is part of the Christian past. From a Catholic point of view, the church does indeed have penance to do for the Inquisition. But how? I propose that the way to do penance for the In…
Defending the Resurrection

By Nick Don at Theopolitical The fact that dead people do not ordinarily rise is itself part of early Christian belief, not an objection to it. The early Christians insisted that what had happened to Jesus was precisel…
A Christian Blogging Manifesto

By Nick Don at Theopolitical In the preface to his book Allah: A Christian Response, Miroslav Volf puts forward several caveats about how he intends, as a Christian, to write about Islam. As I read the caveats, I felt a…
Good Without God: The Real Debate(s)

By Nick Don at Theopolitical The whole atheist-Christian “can morality exist without God” debate is a mess, because there are actually three debates going on and being endlessly conflated with one another. S…
St. Paul and Allah: Perspectives on the Yahweh or Allah Debate

By Nick Don at Theopolitical Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your obje…
Are Yahweh and Allah the Same God?

By Nick Don at Theopolitical In his book Allah: A Christian Response, Miroslav Volf argues that the God of the Quran and the God of the Old and New Testaments can be fairly understood as the same being. He argues this b…
Love and Torture: How Do We Treat Enemies?

By Nick Don at Theopolitical Torture has reemerged as a topic recently, with claims that waterboarding and other forms of torture led to the location and killing of Osama bin Laden. I haven’t pursued verification o…
The Relative Unimportance of bin Laden's Death

By Nick Don at Theopolitical America invests its resources into killing its enemies. Got that. I have no especial problem with that; that’s what nations do. As St. Augustine observed, human governments cannot c…