February 2, 2009
The February 2009 issue of Church & State Magazine has the following article: In A Bid To Keep Religious Symbols On Public Land, Anti-Separationist Forces Have Declared The Christian Cross To Be Secular. “But in July, U.S. District Judge Larry Read more…
December 3, 2008
I just finished reading The Fall of the Evangelical Nation: The Surprising Crisis Inside the Church by Christine Wicker. I highly recommend this book, especially for those atheists who never had a “born-again” experience. Wicker does an excellent job showing Read more…
September 2, 2008
Last week John McCain made a surprising choice for Vice President, the relatively unknown and inexperienced Sarah Palin. I don’t think it’s too skeptical to say this choice was directed by McCain’s desire to capitalize on disgruntled Hillary supporters and Read more…
August 18, 2008
I was looking through the church ads in the newspaper last Saturday when one of them caught my eye. The motto of this church was “For Those Who Want More”. What exactly does that mean? More of what? Does it Read more…
August 11, 2008
Father Damien was a Roman Catholic priest who worked with lepers in Hawaii during the 1800s. He eventually contracted the disease and died in 1889. The Vatican recently “confirmed” a 2nd miracle opening the way to proclaim Father Damien a Read more…
August 4, 2008
On July 23 Westminster Theological Seminary (WTS) and Prof. Peter Enns issued a statement announcing his departure from the Seminary (http://www.wts.edu/stayinformed/view.html?id=187). The announcement was a nice politically correct statement as to the mutual affection and gratitude shared by each and Read more…
July 14, 2008
Do you believe in hell? Really believe in it or just give it lip service? Robert Ingersoll in 1877 said: “I do not believe this doctrine, neither do you. If you did, you could not sleep one moment. Any man Read more…
June 11, 2008
This is a continuation of my comments on John Piper’s “20 Reasons I don’t Take Potshots at Fundamentalists”. Questions 16 – 20: 16. They are not breathless about being accepted in the scholarly guild. So, is it good to be Read more…
June 9, 2008
This is a continuation of my comments on John Piper’s “”20 Reasons I don’t Take Potshots at Fundamentalists”. Questions 11 – 15: 11. They tend to raise law-abiding, chaste children, in spite of the fact that Barna says evangelical kids Read more…
June 6, 2008
This is a continuation of my comments on John Piper’s “”20 Reasons I don’t Take Potshots at Fundamentalists”. Questions 6 – 10: 6. They have backbone and are not prone to compromise principle. This is an admirable trait, if and Read more…