Same-sex ordinance highly discriminatory
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream Chattanooga’s domestic partnership ordinance is highly discriminatory. It reduces the value of marriage, making of it nothing more than a convenient and moralistic fiction lacking any rational basis. Simultaneously it elevates homosexual acts and guy-gal shackups to make these equal to the honorable estate of marriage. 18-minute analysis. Tweet […]
David’s illegal census used to judge a people gone astray
Absalom, King David’s son, is caught by his hair in a tree and shortly after is slain. Judgment darkens the house of David after his sin with Bathsheba. Personal and national judgments unite. Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand. — Thomas Brooks, Puritan (1608-1680) By David Tulis King David at the […]
Former homeless man holds job, lives on own, drives car, extends mercy
Serving clients at Community Kitchen in Chattanooga are Edward Hice, left, and Emmett Allgood Jr. Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need. — Ephesians 4:28 And whatever you do, do it heartily, […]
From ‘religious organization’ to church; dissolving the corporate charter
(Bob Parsons in The Moneychanger) 3 brief letters to Nashville shed the artifice of the corporate church in an entanglement with the state; how to dissolve the corporation [Note: Nothing in this essay should be construed as legal advice. The material is based on my own reading of the statute and background reading of the […]
Key cultural indicator: Poverty in prayers of confession bodes ill for U.S.
Grief at sin prompts the woman at the Pharisee’s house to weep and wash the feet of Jesus while he is at table (Luke 7). [I first published this essay in November 2012. — DJT] By David Tulis The low estate of Christianity is evident in public prayers that see man as coequal with God, […]
‘Is it OK to be gay?’ Christianity insists on chastity
Jeremy Roberts lives out the Christian doctrine of sexual purity by being married to his wife, Charity, and being a family man. He is a minister of the gospel in Chattanooga. By Jeremy Roberts Last night, it was announced that the A&E Network has suspended Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson due to his statements in an […]
Weekley scandal highlights power of marriage, its secure place in society
Jimmy Weekley resigned as coach at Baylor school after being trapped in a prostitution sting. (Photo WRCB TV3) All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina By David Tulis The arrest of private school soccer coach Jimmy Weekley on charges of solicitation […]
Christianity, globally and locally, is taking God’s kingdom ‘by force’
This representation of Naaman the leper depicts a man brought closer (if not into) the people of God by a healing from leprosy in the Old Testament. (Image http://shipwrecksoul.blogspot.com) And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. — The Lord Jesus, Matthew […]
As Times Free Press enacts paywall, Nooganomics offers more for free
The Chattanooga Times Free Press wants you and other Web readers to buy printed copies of the newspaper or pay for an online subscription in support of local economy. The Internet is destroying information monopolies and making it possible for people to be freer in their minds, to have access to a free market in […]
Homeless men pushed to adopt long-term view, ‘minority report’
This three-minute video explains the work of a Chattanooga charity, Union Gospel Mission. “Every problem a man has can be solved with a relationship with God.” — Jon Rector, Union Gospel Mission Chattanooga’s prosperity depends, to some extent, on how well it insulates itself from events a business executive would call “non-controllables.” The independence and […]