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…
June 5, 2008
Recently John Piper, a notable evangelical speaker and author, blogged about “20 Reasons I don’t Take Potshots at Fundamentalists” (http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1251_20_reasons_i_dont_take_potshots_at_fun). It is a bit tongue-in-cheek (I hope), but even so I think it is captures many of the items that Read more…
May 26, 2008
On May 31st 2008, the 5-year old daughter of Christian music star Steven Curtis Chapman was killed. She was hit by a SUV driven by her older brother (http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=315536&silentchk=1&). This is obviously a horrible tragedy. Not only did the Chapman’s Read more…
May 24, 2008
I read something from my local newspaper the other night that made me want to scream. The article was entitled “Parents of girl who died seek dismissal of charges”. On Easter Sunday of this year eleven year old Madeline Neumann Read more…
May 14, 2008
“MADISON, WI — Two children and their mother lived for about two months with the decaying body of a 90-year-old woman on the toilet of their home’s only bathroom, on the advice of a religious “superior” who claimed the corpse Read more…
May 5, 2008
At our societies last breakfast meeting we discussed the subject of how to deal with evangelical Christians. I thought in my first “Religious ReEducation 101” blog post I’d touch on a couple of aspects concerning this subject and continue to Read more…
From SamHarris.org: We are preparing to run another fMRI study of belief and disbelief, and we need volunteers to help us refine our experimental stimuli. This promises to be the first study of religious faith at the level of the Read more…
May 4, 2008
On Friday May 2nd, violent weather once again ripped through 4 states with up to 25 tornados touching down leaving destruction in their wake. This time 7 died in Arkansas. Were these people worst sinners than those people in VA Read more…
May 2, 2008
On Monday April 28th 2008, 6 tornadoes touched down in VA causing 200+ injuries and damaging or destroying at least 140 homes. Suffolk, VA was particularly hard hit, but miracle of miracles God was merciful. Beth and John Catania found Read more…