Church and Society

  • Romans 13 and Revelation 13: When Government Serves God—and When It Becomes the Beast

    Romans 13 calls rulers God’s servants for the good. Revelation 13 shows power becoming beastly when it devours truth, justice, and human dignity. Read together, these chapters offer a mature Christian theology of political authority.

    Read more →

  • Romans 12:9–21 is not a moral checklist but a portrait of a community shaped by God’s covenant mercy. Paul describes how love, humility, generosity, endurance, and non-retaliation emerge when the church learns to live inside mercy without turning it into pride. Christian ethics here is not pressure-driven but mercy-formed.

    Read more →

  • Is the law being bent to serve the powerful—or straightened to protect the vulnerable and restore what was stolen? This blogpost draws on Jesus’ Sabbath healings and biblical justice to explore the deeper purpose of law: to protect truth-tellers and return what belongs to the people. Justice must not be negotiated. It must roll.

    Read more →

  • Babylon never really left. It keeps reappearing—disguised in every generation. This post explores how the biblical motif of Babylon still speaks to our political moment today, calling the Church not to escape, but to resist with faithfulness, truth, and hope.

    Read more →

  • Jesus’ parable of the tenants wasn’t just a critique of ancient leaders—it was a direct challenge to anyone who claims authority without accountability. The vineyard, long symbolic of Israel, becomes a stage for exposing broken trust: prophets are rejected, the Son is killed, and judgment comes—not out of vengeance, but to protect the mission. The…

    Read more →