Peace in Our Time

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him. Exodus 23:4 NASB Return – The instructions that accompany citizenship in the Kingdom of YHVH are fundamentally different than our view of political affiliation. In systems based on Western thought, individual rights and privileges are at the…

Babylon Revisited

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“Since the culture of ancient times tended to value a person in light of the role performance, personal values also follow that path.  Van der Toorn finds a ‘priority of shame over guilt, of honour over self-esteem, and of success over integrity.  Since misfortune of any sort was inferred to derive from having offended deity,…