Hope College: More Calling - Less Career
As we’ve seen the reaction of the culture to Christians in light of the recent gay US and UK marriage decision, we keep coming back to these words: Whatever the nature of their creed, stubbornness and inflexible obstinacy surely deserve to be punished. Those words aren’t from a current judge who wants to force Christian bakers, florists, or photographers to perform their services for the "wedding" of two men or two women. Or the words of a judge trying to stop a street preacher talking about the sin of homosexuality. They’re much older. Pliny the Younger, a second-century Roman governor, wrote that statement to the emperor when he was dealing with Christians for not bowing to the demands of the state. Rome saw believers as enemies of mankind—"haters," if you will—simply because they wouldn’t agree with everything society said was true. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Pliny’s words remind us that from the beginning, God’s people have been misunderstood and accused of ...
