Apprentice Owl Apologetics

                 I’m sure the current political climate in the United States needs no introduction, so I can dive straight in to this post. Should Christians get involved in politics, and should we be taking sides with each political controversy? This falls into a previous post of mine, describing the role of emotions in truth arguments. What I would like to do is have a short post describing my thoughts on the current political process, and why Christians should be interested in truth over politics.                 I think as Christians, truth and justice should matter over politics. I will admit that neither left, right, or moderate has a monopoly on these. I think that we should be looking at each political issue on a case by case basis, and deciding what is best there, regardless of what side of the aisle it falls on. I think what matters is whether or not our answer aligns with scripture. For instance, environmentalist political policies are mostly considered left-wing by cons

                In the era of #metoo and social media conflicts causing people to lose their jobs or job opportunities (see the story about the NASA intern who cussed out her boss and was fired), one wonders if people are going about interpersonal communication the wrong way. I typically hear pastors and fellow Christians saying to cast our worries and problems onto Jesus, and that will take care of it. I think this view is slightly flawed. Indeed, we should cast our worries onto Jesus, but problems will still come our way, and how we deal with them is part of our testimony of the transformation of Christ in our lives to the rest of the world. However, my views mean nothing, this all comes to scripture and what God has told us, so what I want to do is to show where God has given us an example of interpersonal communication handled in a godly manner. For this, I want to break down a few of my one-sentence personal thoughts                 Be the bigger person, even when you have t