Author Archives: Pastor Nathan Rush

What in the world is the Ordo Amoris?

February 3, 2025 · by · in Culture, Public Policy, Social Justice Movement · 1 Comment

Last week, our newly minted Vice President, J.D. Vance, elucidated the principle of ordo amoris quite proficiently.  The phrase in question is Latin for ordering our loves or prioritizing them.  During an interview with Fox News, Vance said, “You love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and […]

Biblical Principles for Racial Harmony

June 3, 2020 · by · in Bible, Floyd, George, Public Policy, Racial Reconciliation, Social Justice Movement · Leave a comment

Recently, I witnessed incredible highs and incredible lows.  On the high side, I witnessed the wildly successful launch of the Dragon capsule on top of the Space X Falcon 9 rocket.  For the first time since 2011 and the end of the Shuttle program, American astronauts have been launched in an American rocket off of […]

Slacktivism

August 25, 2014 · by · in Bible · Leave a comment

There is a relatively new phenomenon in our society that just happens to irritate the daylights out of me. It is a practice that goes by several different names, most notably; “slacktivism” and “hashtag activism”. For those of you unfamiliar with the term “hashtag”, it means adding a pound sign, #, in front of a […]