Theology
Animals in Heaven?
A question pastors will face occasionally (especially from pet-lovers): Are there animals in heaven? How do you approach this? I frankly can’t recall a decent pastoral/theological article on this one (though literalists have a stock answer: ‘Course there are… wot about the four horses of the apocalypse?’) Some responses from netfriends: A few very cursory […]
Life After Limbo
Life After Limbo Closing it will send more souls to heaven, but will baptism lose its primacy? By DAVID VAN BIEMA Jan. 9, 2006 Forget about the cute headlines proclaiming that limbo is in limbo. In fact, limbo, the incomplete afterlife postulated by the Roman Catholic Church for infants who die before being baptized, is […]
Liberal Christianity
Sightings 1/9/06 Correcting Loconte — Martin E. Marty Ask a friendly neighborhood liberal Protestant, if you can find one, who could be a poster-person for the religious left — someone who applies biblical prophecy to contemporary issues. Theologian Stanley Hauerwas is liberal. He attacks Christian liberals full-time, but, yes, he draws on the Bible. William […]
Blessing
From http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer.htm Berakhot: Blessings A berakhah (blessing) is a special kind of prayer that is very common in Judaism. Berakhot are recited both as part of the synagogue services and as a response or prerequisite to a wide variety of daily occurrences. Berakhot are easy to recognize: they all start with the word barukh (blessed […]
Hooker’s famous 3-legged stool
From a netfriend: Hooker’s famous 3-legged stool We hear a lot about the place of reason in arriving at truth in Anglican circles. Here is what Richard Hooker actually wrote in “Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.” I have used modern punctuation. “What Scripture doth plainly deliver, to that the first place both of credit […]
Grace
From Philip Yancey’s book “What’s So Amazing About Grace?” During a British conference on comparative religions, experts from around the world debated what, if any, belief was unique to the Christian faith. They began eliminating possibilities. Incarnation? Other religions had different versions of gods appearing in human form. Resurrection? Again, other religions had accounts of […]
Bishop Spong Q&A on Growth of the Evangelical Community
SXL writes: “After watching a Tom Brokaw special on the growth of Evangelicals and their huge churches, I am rather appalled that their “love” for humanity does not include homosexuals, people that get abortions or gay and lesbian couples who want to marry! How can people believe in such a narrow minded, limited God? Are […]
Western Religion
Richard Rohr said in his tape series for Spiritual Directors on the Enneagram: “Western religion is a head trip. Thinking is the most clever way to protect yourself from the real. If you just keep talking ideas you never have to encounter utter reality. You never move to the Incarnation – from the Word to […]
The Bible and Homosexuality
One netfriend: It seems clear to me that the underlying reason is how we use the bible to understand the nature and will of God. It also seems to me that we prefer to ignore this larger question. Another: I think this is one of the issues, but not the only one. At one level […]
Unique, Prophetic and Apostolic: Understanding the Bible
A good resource: http://assembly.uca.org.au/agencies/publications/pdf/UniqueProphetApostolicTe.pdf
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