Donald Roth

If I spent the first few articles alienating my more progressive readers because I see the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 as a net positive, then this is the article where I alienate my more conservative readers by criticizing the means used and…

Society sure seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. Now, people have always said that. But still, it’s difficult to see news of global disasters, war, terrorism, economic instability, government corruption, protest, and other unrest without thinking that something significant is going on…

I was watching my legal career get flushed directly down the tubes. I had worked harder than I’d ever worked in my life before during the first semester of law school, and I had excellent grades to show for it. During the spring semester, I…

Daily Scripture Texts Psalm 8Job 38:12-211 Timothy 1:12-14a “But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me. 13 Follow the pattern of the sound words…

Last April, iAT ran a series I put together on the federal Tax Code. Two of those articles focused on what tax reform should look like and how the plans on the table at that time measured up. Well, if you happened to miss the news over the…

In the last piece, I evaluated the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 in terms of the goals of tax reform that I wrote about last year. However, my nerdy, tax policy-oriented approach is far from the most popular way to look at this legislation. Instead, a…

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an American immigration policy founded by the Obama administration in June 2012. DACA allows certain illegal immigrants who entered the country as minors to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a…

Today, we come to the culmination of this brief series looking at the role of both imagination and also what I’ve termed narrative metaphor in how we approach discipleship. If you haven’t had a chance to read the previous two articles, I encourage you to follow the…

Have you ever felt that you really understood something yet lacked the words to express that understanding? Sometimes, I can almost tangibly feel the contours of an idea in my head, but it seems impossible to move that multifaceted thing from my mental space through…

“For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” – Romans 7:15 (ESV) Have you ever found yourself strongly echoing the Apostle Paul’s conflict in this verse? I know I…