“U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones ruled Wednesday that DOMA’s efforts to define marriage ‘intrude upon the states’ business of regulating domestic relations.’ Jones explained that DOMA fails because it tries to re-examine states’ decisions concerning same-sex marriage, Reuters reported.” (from http://www.christianpost.com/news/nyc-judge-rules-doma-unconstitutional-and-an-intrusion-of-states-affairs-76245/)…
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Issues and opinions about Christianity
Purpose
(From In Christ—The Church at Ephesus, forthcoming.) Next Paul provided the purpose for all of this: “that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you” (Eph. 1: 18). Having some sense of generic hope is…
Richard Dawkins vs Cardinal George Pell
There are so many problems with this debate that it’s hard to know where to begin. I can’t agree with either disputant. Dawkins proves that it is possible to be deluded about God, and he is correct. He adequately proves…
This is My Body
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you.” (Luke 22:19). What are we doing here? What did Jesus do in…
Peter’s Vision of The End
Add To Cart Price $12.95 ISBN: 978-0-9820385-9-8 Publisher: Pilgrim Platform Copyright: ©2012 by Phillip A. Ross 195 pages 195 pages by Phillip A. Ross Introduction A couple of years ago a friend asked me about my interpretation of 2 Peter…
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Peter’s Vision of Christ’s Purpose
Add To Cart Price $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-9820385-9-8 Publisher: Pilgrim Platform Copyright: ©2011 by Phillip A. Ross 317 pages Introduction Reading Peter’s letters is quite different than reading Paul’s. Paul was a scholar trained in biblical academics, which involves focusing in…
The True Mystery of The Mystical Presence
Add To Cart Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-9839046-0-1 Publisher: Pilgrim Platform Copyright: ©2011 “Nevin’s Mystical Presence fell into my hands quite providentially at the most impressionable stage of my theological formation, and it made a lasting impression on me. Nevin’s burden…
Marketing Jesus
I was contacted by Russia Today TV in January, 2011, to participate in an interview about marketing Jesus on their “CrossTalk” program, with Peter Lavelle.
The Orthodoxy of Rob Bell
First let me respond to the recent Richard Mouw article: The Orthodoxy of Rob Bell, Christian Post, March 20, 1011. He begins by saying that he agrees with Bell, and he does. But the fact that he agrees with Bell…