Category: Christian Converser

First published on Christian Converser So there’s plenty to follow up after the anti-trans rally controversy over the weekend. Though it’s doubtful even the conservative Christian anti-trans lobbies knew she was coming or were associated with her, they have subsequently sought to champion her cause without looking really seriously at the extreme nature of the… Continue reading Christian Converser: Free Speech And The NZ Church [2]

First published on Christian Converser Free speech is a topic that receives a lot of attention in society. The issue is perhaps best known worldwide because of the prominence it attracts in the United States of America. This has, throughout the history of New Zealand, led to a great deal of US influence upon our… Continue reading Christian Converser: Free Speech And The NZ Church

First published on Christian Converser Welcome to 2023 and a new year of blogging at CCNZ. Everyone must have heard of Jordan Peterson by now, as a psychologist, author and media commentator who is often quoted by evangelical Christians. At the same time, Peterson seems to court a great deal of public controversy, probably far… Continue reading Christian Converser: Questions about Jordan Peterson and Christian sexuality

First published on Christian Converser Apologies for the slowdown in delivery of posts from this blog in 2022. The authorship has experienced many distractions, much of which have been personal family circumstances. These have been overcome enough by now to resume blogging. A faultline that has emerged this year in the US over evangelical engagement… Continue reading Christian Converser: Political Faultlines Continue To Divide US Churches

First published on Christian Converser At the end of June, a well known Christian activist group in New Zealand failed in a legal challenge to the removal of their charitable status (registered with various government agencies). The revocation of this status is said to be due to their involvement in political advocacy, which is generally… Continue reading Christian Converser: Is the State clamping down on Christians in NZ?

First published on Christian Converser As outlined previously, the shift towards Dominionism / theocracy gained considerable momentum during the term of the Trump presidency and the lingering effects continue to the present day, not least because Trump is likely to seek a second term of office and has never ceased campaigning. Previous Republican presidents, however,… Continue reading Christian Converser: US Theocracy Movement Gets A Boost [3]

First published on Christian Converser Along with the previous post in this series expounding the many problems that the current direction of the SCOTUS is creating, it’s time to take a fresh look at the impetus for theocracy and the divisions between different groups of orthodox / conservative Christians along theological and political lines. This… Continue reading Christian Converser: US Theocracy Movement Gets A Boost [2]

First published on Christian Converser Recent decisions by the US Supreme Court intentionally push North America further in the direction of a theocracy. As explained in previous posts in this blog, the current ideal of theocratic government is strongly intertwined with the significant following that dispensationalist theology has gained in the US since the mid-19th… Continue reading Christian Converser: US Theocracy Movement Gets A Boost

First published on Christian Converser David French has written another informed commentary about the gun violence situation in the US, and here we see again the contrast between New Zealand and the American nation, and our different heritages. French sees the key problem as it happens in America today as being one of gun idolatry,… Continue reading Christian Converser: Against Gun Idolatry – David French

First published on Christian Converser Critical Race Theory (CRT) has become the latest conservative evangelical bogeyman in the American church ever since the Trump Administrations, whereby a relatively obscure and mostly unknown set of concepts (outside of the legal profession, where it has been taught at academic level for some decades) suddenly attained a very… Continue reading Christian Converser: David French’s Take On Critical Race Theory