Bob was a Senior Editor at Salvo Magazine for several years before it ceased publication in 2025
You can access all his Salvo print and online articles here:
Touchstone Magazine
Time to Move Along
Recounting the moving experience of watching my father-in-law officiate his own funeral. How a good and godly man says good-bye.
Killing Homicide
Prison is a dreadful place to be. But even the most hardened men can find peace and redemption when they recognize the love and forgiveness of a father most of them never had.
Finding Her Mind
My mother’s brain was riddled with Alzheimer’s Disease. But her mind was still drawn to the beauty and comfort of music.
Christian Research Journal
Thought for Food
Our high-tech, comfortable society has created a culture that rarely has to consider its most basic need. Food is a blessing from God that we should think more about.
No Gods, No Masters
Margaret Sanger’s history and the viewpoints that made her one of the most radical supporters of abortion and the founder of Planned Parenthood.
Marketing an “Almost” Jesus
The “He Gets Us” marketing campaign is trying to sell a version of Jesus that is missing a critical part of His message.
That the ‘Nones’ May Not Perish
Thinking through how to have effective conversations with the growing number of people who have no religious affiliation whatsoever.
Personhood’s Fatal Flaw
Thinking through the subjective ethics at play in “personhood” arguments and how they avoid answering the most important question about abortion.
Dances With Wolves
Some Christian “thought leaders” are using their credentials to slither false teaching into the church. Beware the “woke” predators out there.
Justice and Asymmetric Warfare
Applying “Just War Theory” to modern, asymmetric, robotic warfare is a serious philosophical challenge Christians thinkers must take seriously.
Breaking Bad‘s Moral Realism
The hit TV series, “Breaking Bad,” gives us a visceral example of the reality of moral good and evil.
Just War and Revolution
How to apply the Christian view of a “just war” to the always controversial topic of revolutions.
Mere Ambassadors
Some thoughts on how to respond when Christian “celebrities” say dumb things in public.
A Mind for the Beautiful
We’ve been programmed to believe the subjective mantra that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” But it hasn’t always been that way. And we shouldn’t let it be now.
Stem Cell Obfuscation
A look at the history of political pandering and deceit on the issue of stem cell research.
Just War 5.0
The fast pace, remote control, and ethics of modern warfare need to be evaluated by Just War principles.
