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…
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Christian Context: Short Sheeted
Richard Hughes in a recent article, The Christian Right in Context, Part 1: The Long View (Huffington Post, 11/8/2010) puts conservative Christianity in the context of liberalism. His essay oozes with the liberal righteousness of supposed objectivity, but is blindly…
New Book Released: Colossians – Christos Singularis
Marietta, Ohio, November 17, 2010. This study of Colossians takes the doctrine of the Trinity seriously and applies it broadly. This means that it is assumed it to be true of God, and therefore true of God’s people because people…
Baptismal Parallels
Compare and contrast believer’s baptism and infant baptism. Note that they have much in common. INFANT BAPTISM TRACK Symbolizes God’s initiating action in salvation. BELIEVER’S BAPTISM TRACK Symbolizes believer’s response to God’s salvation. 1. Infant baptism ceremony (a symbol of…
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…
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…
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…
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…