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The Moral Landscape

I heard Sam Harris defend his new book, The Moral Landscape, last night on BookTV.Very Interesting. I’ll have to get a copy and read it. From what I could tell, he has borrowed liberally from the biblical Christian perspective, but calls his method scientific. We all know that he rejects religion, but then again...

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Justin & Leah Wedding

Justin & Leah Wedding

Justin Taylor Ross and Leah Elizabeth Hitchens were married on October 16, 2010, at Cayuga Valley Church in Ohio. Justin-Leah Wedding

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God In America

“God in America” will be broadcast on PBS for three nights starting Oct. 11, 2010. Stephen Prothero, a religion professor at Boston University, makes a similar point on-screen as he discusses the rising revolutionary sentiment in colonial America. “I think America is a story,” he put it. “And Americans, as they move — as...

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Rock Mountain Creed

Rock Mountain Creed

Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount by Phillip A. Ross First Edition, 325 pages. From the Introduction What difference does Jesus make? Did His teaching and ministry change everything? Or did Jesus’ teaching simply uphold the Old Testament law without changing a jot or a tittle, as He is sometimes understood to have said in...

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3 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Islam

Three surprising things you probably didn’t know about Islam. This subject WILL affect you in the near future, so take the chance to inform yourself now – before it does. British Muslim radicals want to take over the UK and turn Buckingham Palace into a mosque. From CNN International.

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Koran: Don’t Burn It, Read It!

Serious public religious discussion is all but impossible these days. It seems that to hold any serious religious belief is to offend those who don’t hold that particular belief. And the more seriously you take your faith, the more offensive it is. How has American civil society come to this horrible place? Why can’t...

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When the Kettle Calls the Pot Black

Glenn Beck’s recent Restoring Honor rally has unleashed a Jini from the proverbial bottle. It is significant that he has stood in the public square like no one else could at this point in history and called for a national revival of Christian morality. All sane Americans can agree about the need for a...

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Christian, Muslim or Something Else

I know why it is so hard for people to identify President Obama’s religion. The number of people who think that he is a Muslim is rising, and the number of people who think that he is a Christian is shrinking. However, the answer will not be found in the polls. The polls ask...

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Must Christian life involve religion?

My readers may be interested in the article: Must Christian life involve religion? by Shirley Lancaster. “We need to rediscover spirituality as an interior journey and this will involve new institutional forms.” I have commented extensively on it.

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Medical Aid Workers in Afghanistan

In the recent headlines are the 10 Medical Aid Workers in Afghanistan who were killed by Taliban insurgents. According to the director of IAM, Dirk Frans, the Taliban murdered ten people execution-style for their Christianity. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed claimed responsibility for the attack, saying: “Yesterday at around 8am, one of our patrols confronted...

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Books

Peter's Vision CoverNew@

Peter's Vision of Christ's Purpose in First Peter by Phillip A. Ross, November 2011, 317 pages.

The True Mystery CoverNew@

The True Mystery of the Mystical Presence by John Nevin & Phillip A. Ross, October 2011, 355 pages.

Rock Mountain Creed Cover

Rock Mountain Creed — Jesus' Sermon on the Mount by Phillip A. Ross, 2010, 325 pages.

It's About Time Cover

Colossians — Christos Singularis by Phillip A. Ross, 2010, 263 pages.

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