Here’s a short video interview with a panel on ABC News discussion the “New Face of American Evangelicalism.” This is an interesting discussion. Ultimately, I’m not sure how helpful it would be to someone who holds to the more traditional American Christian ideals. It’s not particularly polarizing. The individuals on the panel are not some [...]
Here’s what Glenn Beck said and believes about the Dead Sea Scrolls: All right. So here’s what happened. When Constantine decided he was going to uh… cobble together an army, um, he did the uh… Council of uh… Nicaea, right, Pat? … Council of Nicaea. Um… and what they did is brought all of the [...]
A very intriguing look. Why I want to go to hell. Posted using ShareThis
Christian humility is not an affirmation of abuse or low self-esteem. It is not a retreat from the world’s suffering and pain or a shrinking back from all expressions of power. To the contrary, Christian humility begins with a positive assertion: We are children of God, made in God’s images, created for Shalom. As God’s [...]
Mohammed Jawad was captured in Kabul and given over to the US forces in 2003. At the time he was around 14 years young. And this is what the US has done to him: What is not in dispute is that he was no older than an adolescent, and that since his capture he has [...]
Apparently after some carbon dating showed fragments of bones were from the first or second century A.D., Pope Ratzinger declared This seems to confirm the unanimous and uncontested tradition that they are the mortal remains of the Apostle Paul While I’m not all that convinced, I’m also not all that concerned. What truly grasped my [...]
Wayne Leman, from the absolute must Better Bibles Blog, wrote a great little post on explaining the words in a Bible translation. He communicated perfectly something I’ve been trying—and failing—to get across to folks for years. The issue is whether or not someone has to further explain the meaning of a Bible translation to others. [...]
One thing I am not shy about mentioning is that I believe all Christians in the military today must leave the military as conscientious objectors. Yes, that does imply joining the military is not much of an option for starters. But I wanted to make a very simple comparison between the two sides in this: [...]
I hear that mindset a lot lately. We’ve seen the mentality all too brutally clear over the last six or so years. And it is absolute nonsense if you are a disciple of Jesus. Because of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent and continuous media parade defending the Bush administration’s enhanced interrogation methods, cable news [...]
