Pastor Sam Jones

Every December, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol returns to our cultural imagination. We watch Ebenezer Scrooge transform from a miserly, isolated man muttering “humbug” at every mention of Christmas, into a joyful, generous soul who embodies the so-called “Christmas spirit.” It’s a heart-warming story. But for the Christian, there’s an obvious problem: the “redemption” Scrooge […]

The Categories We Inherited For generations, we’ve been told that politics falls neatly on a left–right spectrum. On the left are progressives, liberals, socialists, and communists. On the right are conservatives, nationalists, and fascists. The categories are so familiar that even Christians borrow them without thinking. But what if the map itself is wrong? What […]