by James H Boyd | Oct 10, 2026 | Church & Culture
Does Halloween Get a Bad Rap? This article should not be seen as either a blanket endorsement or a blanket denunciation of Halloween. My concern is that Christians too often make knee-jerk judgments based on inaccurate or incomplete information. Instead, I want to...
by James H Boyd | Aug 28, 2026 | Church & Culture, Ethics and Difficult Issues
In 1984, New York governor Mario Cuomo delivered a widely discussed address at the University of Notre Dame titled “Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor’s Perspective.” In it, Cuomo attempted to explain how a Catholic politician could personally...
by James H Boyd | Apr 1, 2026 | Church & Culture, Ethics and Difficult Issues
An Open Letter to My LGBT Friends Dear Friends, Before you read another word, I want you to know that I am writing this because I believe honest conversations are better than caricatures and assumptions. Too often, Christians and LGBT people speak about one another...
by James H Boyd | Jan 6, 2026 | Apologetics & Worldviews, Church & Culture, Ethics and Difficult Issues
Welcome back to our study. In Part 1, we stood back and took in the wide-angle view of creation, seeing Genesis through the eyes of Jesus. We looked at some of the mechanisms God may have used, as well as the fallacy of saying that faith and science are incompatible....
by James H Boyd | Dec 13, 2025 | Bible & Theology, Church & Culture
“Wait… what?”That’s the reaction many people have when church discipline is mentioned. It sounds harsh, outdated, or even scary. After all, isn’t church supposed to be about grace, love, and second chances? Absolutely! But real love means setting boundaries,...
by James H Boyd | Jun 19, 2025 | Church & Culture, Ethics and Difficult Issues
I was inspired to write this post after seeing the above meme. Of course, this statement is ridiculous. First of all, there is the fact that this same US Constitution is based on British Common Law which drew heavily from the Bible. Furthermore, you could just as...
