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Issues and opinions about contemporary culture
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…
Glenn Beck & Bible Study
On February 17, 2011, Glenn Beck presented a Bible study showing the parallels between the “biblical view of the end times” and the view of the Islamic Twelvers. Why is this important? Because the Twelvers count in their number Mahmoud…
New Christian Ethic
Guest review by A. T. Ross : Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic (Cities of the Biblical World) by Elizabeth R Moberly This importance of this book cannot be overestimated. In it Dr. Moberly reassesses the Christian response to homosexuality. By…
Christian Context: Rejecting Christ
Richard Hughes continues his series of articles in the Huffington Post, The Christian Right in Context: Building a Christian America, with a clear statement of his bias. By saying that “There have always been Christians who have resisted religious pluralism…
Church Failure
Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell wrote an article, Walking away from church, for the LA Times (10/17/2010) summarizing their recent book, American Grace. It seems that churches might want to hear what their research has uncovered. “As recently…
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…
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…
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…