Josh Benner

Category: Commentary

  • ISIS takes credit for attempted Texas attack

    ISIS has taken credit for the attempted attack over the weekend at a Muhammed Art Exhibit and Contes in Garland, Texas. The event featured a $10,000 prize for the top drawing of Muhammed. Yes the event was provocative. But the problem isn’t a controversial event. Among many commentators, I’m getting this sense of: “don’t do…

  • John Wyclif: real impact and revisionist history

    For every statement about John Wyclif, there is an equal and opposite statement about John Wyclif. There isn’t even universal agreement about how his name is spelled, ranging from Wyclif, to Wycliffe, to Wickliffe, among others. It was the 16th century historian John Bale who first called Wyclif “the Morning Star of the Reformation. ”…

  • Religious freedom laws and common sense

    Arkansas looks poised to sign a religious freedom act into law. Time will tell what the reaction will be. In response to Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, there has been a severe backlash in the last several days. Conventions and businesses are talking about leaving the state. Other states are boycotting Indiana. First it was…

  • Teen charged in bank mistake: who should pay?

    An 18 year old Georgia man named Steven Fields had $30,000 deposited into his bank account. It was a mistake from a bank teller who meant to deposit the money into the account of…Steven Fields, another man in the same small town with the same name. What’s interesting to me about this story is that…

  • UC Irvine students try to be inclusive: do the exact opposite and remove American flag

    I hear a lot of ideas that I disagree with and think are ridiculous. But I try to be accepting. But then I sometimes see something, and think “I can’t accept this. Are these real people? Who thinks like this?” On Thursday night, the Associated Students of the University of California Irvine voted to remove…