The blog GetReligion, which critiques media coverage of religion, points out that most obituaries of Oral Roberts are missing the point. First, as Mollie Hemingway points out, he was NOT the patriarch of the prosperity gospel. Journalists are confusing him with fellow-Tulsan Kenneth Hagin. In
Commenters on yesterday’s post about Environmentalism as the new socialism cited the need to articulate a conservative alternative to the radical environmentalists’ stance towards nature. We should recall that conservatives were among the first to advocate what used to be called “conservation.” Conservatives also are
Oral Roberts Dies At Age 91. I grew up in Oklahoma, about an hour from Tulsa, and I remember as a child watching his healing services on TV, things like this: Even then I was both weirded out and fascinated. Still am, though in a
More from Grace Upon Grace: Spirituality for Today by John W. Kleinig on tentatio: Strangely, we discover the mysterious power of God’s Word, the hidden work of the Holy Spirit in and through the Word most clearly in temptation. Thus Luther says, ‘Thirdly, there is
Luther famously said that to be a real theologian takes oratio, meditatio, and tentatio. The first two are clear enough: prayer and meditation (on God’s Word). But tentatio is not so easily translated from the Latin. It can mean “trial, test, attack, temptation.” What does
Reflecting on the government power grabs being recommended at the Copenhagen climate summit, Charles Krauthammer explains how the left has turned to environmentalism for its new ideology: This naked assertion of vast executive power in the name of the environment is the perfect fulfillment of
The Episcopal church in the U.S.A. has installed yet another gay bishop, this one an open lesbian. Mary Glasspool was made an assistant bishop in the diocese of Los Angeles.
Like many ancient Israelites before the exile, more and more Christians think they can add pagan beliefs to Christianity. Here are some findings from The Pew Forum: Mixing religions: Many Americans have beliefs or experiences that conflict with basic Christian doctrines. People who say they
Just as some Westerners have started advocating laws to prevent families from having more than one child, China is having second thoughts as it is facing the consequences of its one-child policy, which it enforced with mandatory abortions: More than 30 years after China's one-child
The House has sent to the Senate a bill to regulate the financial industry, leading to a telling quotation from a Congressman who aspires to controlling our economy. From the Washington Post: Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who guided the bill through the House Financial Services
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