Ronald V. Huggins

Money, Sex, and Power  The three great motivators Ever noticed how prone people captured by a combination of any two of these hankerings to rage with self-righteous contempt against those captured by whatever the third hankering happens to be. Why's that I wonder?

On March 10, 2017, former President Obama's half brother tweeted a copy of what purports to be President Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.  This is the same birth certificate that Lucas Smith was making available in 2009 (see here ), but beyond that, and what I want to show here, is that it is a copy of the copy that Lucas Smith had.  This is seen by comparing the additional stamping in the upper left hand corner.  Look first at Smith's copy:  Now look at the same part of the page in the copy Malik Obama made available.   Malik's copy comes from Smith's Feb 19, 2009 copy.   What this means is that Malik Obama's copy was made from Lucas Smith's copy.  In other words it is not a separate copy of the document originating with the Obama family.  If it were that it would have been highly significant because it would have proven that Lucas Smith's copy was not, as was widely argued, a forgery. There is by the way a...

Russell Moore If the intent of investigating ECRL leader Russell Moore is (as I hope) to work for peace and unity in the SBC, then good (though the use of the term "investigate" may be rather poorly chosen). If the intend is really to unseat Moore for opposing Trump, then that's bad. I think it is important to oppose such an action for a number of reasons. First, the candidacy of Donald Trump was a problematic one that a number of prominent Christian leaders struggled with. One may think for example, of John Piper's article "How to Live Under and Unqualified President." And then there was Wayne Grudem's disorienting on--again, off-again, endorsement of Trump, and this, remember, was the same Wayne Grudem who had published in 2010 the magisterial work, Politics According to the Bible: A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding Modern Political Issues in Light of Scripture. Trump's candidacy threw even Grudem a curve ball. Secon...