What is the Just War tradition? When is it right for a Christian to go to war? Was the American Revolution a "just war?" These question and others are dealt with. Participants: Dr. Hans Vought, Rev. Mark Diedrich, Dan Elmendorf

We investigate a quote from the Pope's recent pastoral letter, Caritas in Veritate, where he writes that there is a "strongly felt need" for a reform of the United Nations and of "economic institutions and international finance..." "There is," he says "urgent need of a true world political authority" with "effective power." We tackle this dangerous assertion with Biblical exposition, and with a perspective in history. Participants: Dr. John Vance, Rev. Mark Diedrich, Dan Elmendorf.

We investigate a quote from the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of America - Rev. Katharine Jefforts Schori. In speaking of the crisis in her own church she says: "the overarching connection in all these crisis has to do with 'the great Western heresy' - that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in a right relationship with God." This assertion is challenged using the plain teachings of Scripture. The individual is saved by God's free grace, i.e., by grace through faith alone. Participants: Dr. John Vance, Rev. Mark Diedrich, Dan Elmendorf.

A continuation of last week's session, with a look at man's total depravity, and how this conviction got fleshed out in the way government is structured with checks and balances. Participants: Dr. Hans Vought, Rev. Mark Diedrich, Dan Elmendorf.

Celebrating the 500th birthday of John Calvin (July 10, 1509), this program looks at the thoughts of Reformer John Calvin. His thinking has dominated Western culture throughout the modern period, and in particular profoundly affected the thinking leading up to the American Revolution. Participants: Dr. Hans Vought, Rev. Mark Diedrich, Dan Elmendorf.