Tag Archives: christianity
The Yahwist Project
I was watching a documentary on female genital mutilation (FGM) during a class on children’s rights issues worldwide, when I noticed something. Throughout the film, there were two principal forces fighting the cruel practice, and both were unabashedly religious in their approach. The one force was a Muslim doctor whose approach involved breaking down the [...]
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thoughts on jared loughner
Jared Loughner believes that the US government does a great number of evil things, and specifically that our currency system of fiat money is a gigantic rip-off which enriches government and its friends at the expense of everyone else. I agree. A few days ago, Jared Loughner shot a Congresswoman and a number of other [...]
christianity and homosexuality
This here is a discussion between Chuck Colson, Shane Claiborne, and some other guy talking about Christianity and gays. Worth a listen. It’s all a very good talk until at the very end Chuck Colson says something that makes one wonder if he’s spent the last few decades locked in a metal box with nothing [...]
on ‘confrontational politics’ by bill richardson
I just read Confrontational Politics: How to Practice the Politics of Principle by Bill Richardson. Pro: it teaches conservatives valuable lessons about how to succeed in political agitation, drawing on insights from traditional morality, psychology, negotiation tactics, and the best of left-wing strategy. Con: it drastically over-simplifies the political playing field, pitting godly, moral, polite, [...]
on ‘a mind for god,’ by james emery white
I’ve just finished reading A Mind For God, by James Emery White. It’s a small book (about one hundred pages), and it is relatively simple. Its contention is that the advance of Christianity depends heavily on the advance of the Christian intellect. What is needed, says Dr. Emery, is not only zeal and right emotions [...]
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2 thessalonians 3 and the emerging christian movement
And by “emerging Christian movement,” I speak not of the “Emerging/Emergent Church” movement of today but rather the original Christian movement while it was first emerging, during the period of Paul’s letters. Related Posts:didache tuesdaySing with the understanding also: swift and beautiful feet assumptions as they currently standabout the biblethe single foundational truth of christianity
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i taught a rabbi today
that the New Testament was written in Greek, not Latin as he had supposed. It seems that to many Jews, Christianity means medieval Catholicism. Related Posts:beyond the canon listhebrew thursday: pronouns and prepositionsreverse folk etymologywhat’s going on with GOD in genesis 6:5?a curious coincidence
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Was creationism recently invented?
Christianity always has been and always must be influenced to some extent by traditionalism–the goal of preserving the traditions handed down from the past. Even if the excessive traditionalism which attaches far too much significance to human development is drastically cut back and the Bible is (as it rightly should be) considered the final standard [...]
Posted in passage interpretation Also tagged bible, calvin, creation, creationism, human action, irenaus, jason of pastoral musings, josephus, ludwig von mises, oec, old earth creationism, tradition, yec, young earth creationism 4 Comments
assumptions as they currently stand
In the past, I wrote this post on assumptions, presuppositions, basic beliefs, whatever you want to call them — the basic conceptual lenses I see the world through. And now it seems time for an update. 1) There is a God, and he is, more specifically, the kind of God the knowledge of whom has [...]
Posted in uncategorized Also tagged creeds, cults, holy spirit, jesus christ, nanny state, presuppositions, the church, thinking 3 Comments
Church and State — Two Forces at Odds