Author name: ryan

Go out for a drive to run any errand for an appointment, work or social function. Within a minute or two you may witness: Drivers riding your bumper when you are in the right lane going the speed limit (it’s illegal to also do it in the passing lane also) someone behind honking the horn […]

Turn on the television, only if you feel like throwing up. Open up your laptops, if you’re begging for a migraine. Without wanting any of it, we’re all subjected to the stench of yellow journalism. Anytime we don’t want it, we get to know which celebrity had another implant. Which athlete just proposed to their

The glorious reality about living in America is our First Amendment right to freedom of speech. Yet, the most tragic and debasing dynamic about living here is the belief everyone has a right to be heard! People can hear an obnoxious alarm in the morning and shut it off. They can hear the shriek of

Every now and then the world witnesses the pinnacle of the proverbial iceberg of mysoginistic based violence metted out in public, as if it’s a script from some deranged teleplay. As investigations commence we later learn that the perpetrator had produced some manifesto about struggling with rejection from the opposite sex, finally becoming ‘uncorked.’ Like

How Evangelicals Should View The Matter When we yield to ‘authority’ it’s better to see it as obeying laws in general. Always putting other citizens first in humility: “For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to

Now that I’ve laid out the logic behind the notion that certain elected positions have authority over citizens, I’m going to present arguments against it in this morning’s post. My thesis today is where I marry a biblical perspective with a legal and technical one. Unfortunately, like many things in life it may confound the

In the last article I discussed what political offices could be viewed as having authority over citizenry that evangelicals often refer to. In today’s article I’m going to pin point those offices where logic would state no or very little authority over a constituency with reasons for the argument. Mayors: When it comes to local

Common sense and common law gives Christians a window as to who holds authority over us in certain aspects of time and circumstance. For anyone over 18 and having been youth we can relate to the angst of having so many authority figures prior to becoming emancipated on our 18th birthday. From my perspective, here

You may heard a reference during the extended prayer section of a service about praying for those in authority. Who are those praying referring to? Is it fallacy to even word it this way? In my first personally written post, I’d like to clarify the issue from a sound perspective; concluding with a word of

Friends and fellow citizens, On July 12, we released our second Vanderbilt Unity Poll, which asks Americans about their perception of polarization and our democratic institutions. The latest poll had some interesting results, including broad consensus on laws to prevent school shootings and seemingly overwhelming support for bipartisanship. Unity Poll Results The Vanderbilt Unity Poll