Theology
C.S.Lewis’ Marriage and the Gay Marriage Controversy
March 31, 2014 What C.S. Lewis ¢â‚¬â„¢ Marriage Can Tell Us About the Gay Marriage Controversy Why ¢â‚¬Å“welcome and wanted ¢â‚¬ is a biblical response to gay and lesbian couples in evangelical churches. by Ken Wilson Note: There’s a problem with the word-wrap below. Until I can fix it the original article is here: http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2014/03/31/what-c-s-lewis-marriage-can-tell-us-about-the-gay-marriage-controversy/31512 ~~ I ¢â‚¬â„¢m […]
A bigot’s ‘rights’ ignore how culture shapes our brains
Must-read! AUTHOR Annabelle Lukin Senior Lecturer, Linguistics at Macquarie University The tragic 200-year folly of the Crusades attests to the power of culture to shape and sustain strongly held ¢â‚¬Ëœpersonal ¢â‚¬â„¢ beliefs. Gustave Dor ƒ © (1832-1883), Crusade against the Moors of Granada/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY There is no gene for bigotry. Bigots are not born, they are made by […]
Top 10 tips for atheists this Easter
OPINION THE DRUM JOHN DICKSON PHOTOThere is a dissonance between Christ’s “love your enemies” and Moses’ “slay the wicked”. DEAN LEWINS: AAP Atheists should drop their easily dismissed scientific, philosophical or historical arguments against Christianity, and instead quiz believers about Old Testament violence and hell, writes John Dickson. As an intellectual movement, Christianity has a […]
The Christian paradox: How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong
Bill McKibben: “The Christian paradox: How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong.” The following article came to my attention while viewing Bill Moyer’s interview with New York Times conservative columnist, Ross Douthat. http://billmoyers.com/segment/ross-douthat-on-modern-christian-heretics/ *** Excerpt: “Therein is the paradox. America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior.” […]
Science vs the Bible: Reasons Why This Debate Will Never Be Settled
by PETER HAN Thursday | Apr 3 2014 On March 17 (2014), scientists announced new findings consistent with the Big Bang Theory. Gravitational waves dating back to instants after the universe came into being, 13.7 billion years ago, were detected by telescope. Regardless of mounting empirical evidence calling into question the account of creation described […]
Is Belief a Jewish Notion?
Is Belief a Jewish Notion? By GARY GUTTING March 30, 2014 This is the fourth in a series of interviews about religion that I am conducting for The Stone. The interviewee for this installment is Howard Wettstein, a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of ¢â‚¬Å“The Significance of Religious Experience. ¢â‚¬ Gary […]
Christianity and the Stockholm Syndrome
IS INSTITUTIONAL CHRISTIANITY THE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME? Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with them. Has institutional Christianity become this? ¢â‚¬Å“Faced by someone promising to do them harm if they didn ¢â‚¬â„¢t do as they say, most people would at least regard such […]
World Vision: should the poor suffer because anti gay-marriage conservative groups withhold donations?
World Vision Reverses Decision To Hire Christians in Same-Sex Marriages Letter: ‘We failed to be consistent with [our] commitment to the traditional understanding of biblical marriage and our own Statement of Faith.’ Celeste Gracey and Jeremy Weber/ MARCH 26, 2014 [Updated 6:15 p.m. Central with fresh comments from Richard Stearns.] Only two days after announcing it would […]
JOHN STOTT: A Tribute to a Mentor
By Rowland Croucher Who are the people who have influenced me most? Intellectually: look at my 100 recommended books. (Note to myself: this needs updating). Maturationally: George Clark, my Sunday School teacher when I was a teenager. He alone helped me believe in myself. Ecclesiologically: probably Rev. (now Bishop) Dudley Foord. He gave me the […]
John Claypool: My favorite (writing) preacher
Here’s a miscellany of stuff about the best (in my view) ‘writing preacher’ / ‘preaching writer’ in the latter half of the 20th Century. Unfortunately he’s not well known outside progressive mainline circles in the U.S. (conversely W E Sangster isn’t well-known in the U.S.). Pity. ~~~ JOHN CLAYPOOL Once a month, while pastoring a […]
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