Category Archives: religion
thoughts on mennonites, part 1
There’s a mennonite church I’ve been starting to spend time at. The word “Mennonite” isn’t on the door (the name on the door is Agora Christian Fellowship) but the church is a member congregation of the Mennonite Church USA. One thing I’ve discovered by talking with people is that many of the doctrinal and practical [...]
Posted in religion Tagged agora christian fellowship, brad schrum, germans, going to the margins, mennonites 1 Comment
elders and deacons
I don’t know how you feel about church polity. Regardless of your or my opinions on the subject, I hope we can agree that this is a welcome change from the topics usually and repetitively addressed in rap: Related Posts:No Related Posts
conservatism and liberalism in politics and biblical studies
Labels are, on the one hand, the only technique available for quickly identifying the nature of the contents of something, whether canned food, a neighborhood, or a worldview. Their strength, which is their ability to ignore a great number of details and summarize a complex phenomenon in a single word or phrase, is also their [...]
Also posted in politics Tagged classical liberalism, conservative, james mcgrath, liberal, ludwig von mises, political terminology Leave a comment
on divine and human rules
I was reading up on the history of the Catholic priesthood a bit here, on an atheist site, and found the following quote: If there were any divine origin to religious rules, we shouldn’t be able to trace their development in human history and how they were conditioned by historical, cultural circumstances. Now, the context [...]
Posted in religion Tagged presuppositions, priesthood, religion, religious rules, roman catholicism Leave a comment
Habitudes, by Tim Elmore