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  The idea of covenant, or brit, has long been one of the main ways in which the biblical encounter between man and God is understood. This term has been especially popular among today’s political theorists with an interest in Scripture, who have tried to marshal the biblical term for contemporary political applications. But these efforts have, more often than not, only clouded our understanding of the biblical concept of covenant. Invariably they employ anachronistic political theories or much—later understandings about what the word means to interpret the term, and then to read it bac...

The Capitol offense: A Christian professor’s warning 50 years ago The prescient words of professor Glenn Martin remind us why biblical Christians should reverence government as a gift of God in a fallen world. People shelter in the House gallery as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) January 27, 2021 (RNS) — “The U.S. Capitol is not impregnable,” Glenn Martin cautioned his students at Indiana Wesleyan University. “Never forget this, my friends! Never forget this!” he shouted, risi...

Irfan Ahmad on Islam today If Immanuel Kant was the “Papa Enlightenment Subject,” a phrase used by anthropologist William Mazzarella, literary critic Edward Said was arguably a loyal child of that Enlightenment. Credited with coining secular criticism, Said also viewed himself as a secular critic. Notably, the introduction and conclusion to his The World, The Text and the Critic are titled respectively as “Secular Criticism” and “Religious Criticism.”  Lamenting that the contemporary critics had become “cleric,” Said invoked the Enlightenment for critique to “become a trul...

By Peter Berger It’s not uncommon for nations to date their public documents from more than one reference point. Before they left the Mayflower, for example, the people we know as the Pilgrims agreed to enact and obey laws “for the general good of the Colony.” The Mayflower Compact they issued and signed bore three dates — the Christian era calendar date, November 1620; the year of King James’s reign over England, the eighteenth; and the year of his reign over his native Scotland, the 54th. If you examine our Constitution, you’ll find the calendar date of its sig...

The idea that guantanamo bay is a better a option. you don't have to object to guantanamo bay in general to think it's just an absurd idea in this specific case. we've seen it again and again, civilian courts are well equipped, lots of cases better equipped, to have these prosecutions. so this is really a president who's speaking without any kind of expertise or facts underlying his assertions. not unusual unfortunately for this white house. >> peter berger, you studied this, when the president says you have to get rid of the lottery immigration system, when he says you need extreme vetting, d...