Benjamin L. Corey's Blog, page 23
October 20, 2015
Toddlers Killing With Guns: It’s Not a Gun Issue, It’s a SIN Issue
Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported an issue that’s likely raising some eyebrows: toddler shootings. Now, this isn’t toddlers being shot, but toddlers actually pulling the trigger on someone else. As the Post reported, there have been over 43 shootings by toddlers just this year– that’s an average of one per week. Certainly, this [Read More...]
October 19, 2015
90% Innocent: How America Is Creating Terrorists Faster Than We Can Kill Them
People aren’t born terrorists. No one crawls out of their mother’s womb, finishes weaning and learning how to walk, and then finds their first words to be words of hatred. No one is predestined to become a terrorist, and terrorism isn’t some genetic issue. Rather, terrorists are created out of otherwise beautiful image bearers of the [Read More...]
October 16, 2015
Mike Huckabee Endorses Selling Poor People As Slaves (not even making this up)
Republican presidential candidate and Baptist preacher, Mike Huckabee, is endorsing a policy that sounds reeeeeeaaal Christian like. In a radio interview with Iowa’s Jan Mickelson, the two spoke of America’s broken justice system- a topic I’ve written about at TIME, previously. Certainly, our justice system is broken with a capital B. Between an incarceration rate that is [Read More...]
If The Bible Commands Us To Bless Israel, It Commands Us To Bless Muslims Too
With violence erupting between the nation of Israel and the Christians and Muslims referred to collectively as the Palestinians, so also have American Christians taken to the airwaves to pledge their unwavering support for Israel. Certainly, for those of us who grew up in fundamentalism, blind and unwavering support for the modern state of Israel [Read More...]
October 10, 2015
How To Live Relatively Safely, Without Owning A Defensive Firearm
I’ve always wondered why the gun lobby seems to keep sending us the message that a gun is the best way to ensure personal and home safety. Strike that– I know why they send the message: the gun lobby sells guns. Despite the fact that having a gun in your home increases your risk of gun-death, somehow [Read More...]
October 9, 2015
Using the Bible To Run From Jesus (What If Jesus Actually Is Enough?)
Growing up, I learned a lot about Jesus. As an adult, I’ve learned even more. One of the common threads that has been part of my journey was the idea that “Jesus is sufficient” or what is sometimes called the “sufficiency of Christ.” In my fundamentalist world, the sufficiency of Christ was a theological descriptor [Read More...]
October 6, 2015
6 Billion Reasons Why The American Gun Lobby Loves Them A Good Mass Shooting
I’ll admit it: I’m officially to the point where I believe that the gun lobby in America actually loves mass shootings. I don’t mean that as hyperbole either, I actually think mass shootings are very, very good for them and must be something they rejoice over. Let me explain a bit: A good rule of thumb [Read More...]
September 23, 2015
Why Standing Against Islamic Violence Forces You To Rethink Biblical Inerrancy
I’ve written a fair amount about contemporary issues regarding our relationship with Muslims. As a people group I love dearly and long to minister to for years to come, I have been quick to stand against xenophobia and Islamophobia. In our current climate in American Christianity however, there is fast and hard push-back when I stand [Read More...]
September 22, 2015
The Road To Death Camps Is Paved With Fear-based Rhetoric
In our divisive political climate, Hitler comparisons are far too common and grossly misused. Most of the time, the comparisons are simply inappropriate. However, as I have been pondering this issue for some weeks, I’ve realized there is an appropriate time and place to make a Hitler comparison. Making a Hitler comparison is far game [Read More...]
September 21, 2015
How To Judge Less, Love More, And Grow Your Heart In Just Six Weeks
Perhaps one of the best known verses in the Bible comes from Matthew 7 and Luke 6 when Jesus commands his disciples to “judge not.” Ask 10 people what that actually means, and you’ll probably get 10 different explanations. Whatever it does or doesn’t mean however, I hope we can all agree that as Christians we [Read More...]
