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New Age – A Definition
New Age: A Christian Response to a serious Challenge by John Harris (Zadock Institute For Christianity and Society, Series 1 Paper, ISSN 0156-7470, Dec 1990) … What is the New Age Movement? … People are exploring alternate spiritual frameworks to give meaning to their life, and to provide inner resources to achieve their goals. It […]
Christian Satire
Taking Humor Seriously “The Evangelical’s Use of Satire” Dewey didn’t give it a decimal point. When I ask librarians about it, they look at me like they would a newly discovered blemish. I’ve sleuthed the labyrinth of their stacks and shelves and come up with nothing more than a dust-mite allergy. As best I can […]
Why don’t Jews accept Jesus as the Messiah or Son of God?
from http://www.beliefnet.com/story/28/story_2892_1.html Why don’t Jews accept Jesus as the Messiah or Son of God? David Wolpe is the rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, author of ‘Making Loss Matter,’ and a Beliefnet columnist. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Growing up in Philadelphia, I attended Akiba Hebrew Academy, a private Jewish school. In 11th grade, a Southern Baptist preacher […]
Reclaiming Occupied Territory and the Cultural Commission
Charles Colson “The Lord’s cultural commission is, I believe, inseparable from the Great Commission. Every part of creation came from God’s hand, every part was drawn into the mutiny of humanity against God, and every part will someday be redeemed. This means caring about all of life-redeeming people and redeeming culture. We are instructed, after […]
Here and Now
Mohandas K. Gandhi It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to […]
Is It un-Christian to Engage in Satire?
Offensisensitivity Is it “un-Christian” to Engage in Satire? “Phantaz Sunlyk” with additions by James Patrick Holding What place does satire and the like have – what place can it have-within the defense of a religion based on a God who is Love? …. Many ancient societies (and we shall see below, certain modern social groups) […]
Love Your God with All Your Mind
Note: This paper is based substantially on the work of JP Moreland, philosophy professor at Biola University, particularly a talk he gave called Love Your God With All Your Mind, and his book of the same name. The culture we live in often seems to be more effective at evangelising the Church than the Church […]
Pharisees Ancient and Modern
Being an itinerant (‘hit-run’) preacher has some advantages. I remember a Sunday evening service in a conservative church in rural Victoria, Australia. They had big black Bibles and severe expressions… And they knew their Bibles, and were proud of that. It was a smallish group, so I decided to engage them in dialogue: ‘Who knows […]
The Shaping of Things to Come
Review: The Shaping of Things to Come “Ivan Illich was once asked what is the most revolutionary way to change society. Is it violent revolution or is it gradual reform? He gave a careful answer. Neither. If you want to change society, then you must tell an alternative story, he concluded.” Tim Costello ** The […]
Calvin on quoting non-Christians
`But if the Lord has willed that we be helped in physics, dialectic, mathematics, and other like disciplines, by the work and ministry of the ungodly, let us use this assistance.’ John Calvin
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