One of the ways in which a president shapes the future of the country is through appointments to the judiciary, and especially the Supreme Court. How do you see each candidate shaping the future of the court, and why is this important? (If you are supporting a particular candidate, focus on that one.)
I’ve been asking questions that I thought would concern others. This week I’m answering a question that’s on my mind, and which I don’t think the candidates at any level have addressed enough. How can we go about improving the quality of education in this country? This question may not relate to the presidential candidates…
Link to the Question Following each mass killing, as the shock, outrage, and grief fade, and sometimes even before this, the question inevitably becomes what should we do? Is there any way that we could stop these from occurring? As with so much in our society, there are vast differences in how people begin to…
Energion owner Henry Neufeld interviews Allan R. Bevere, author of The Politics of Witness and the just released Colossians & Philemon: A Participatory Study Guide on the U. S. election and our response to it. This was recorded on Friday, July 15, 2016, before the coup attempt in Turkey, but the attack in Nice and…
Question 1: While there is considerable agreement between our views a major difference between us, and I believe between liberals can conservatives in general, is over the competing goals of liberty and equality. You see equality or as you put it, “leveling the playing field” as one of the driving principles of government. Where does…
(July 4, 2017) 10:46 AM Shot this pic in Dallas. You’ll notice that “community” is used instead of “church.” This is the high calling of the body of Christ, including your local church and mine: to live in community. (Some day I will stop using the word “church” to translate the Greek ekklesia. If people…
Following our great Energion political debate last year, two participants were interested in a longer, slower, debate with more time for responses and serious discussion. Thus began our year-long political debate. In this debate, two Energion authors, Elgin Hushbeck, Jr. (Preserving Democracy, Evidence for the Bible, and Christianity and Secularism) and Joel Watts (From Fear…
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