Michael Horton, in the article we looked at yesterday, goes on to show why Christians do need the church: The gospel is good news. The message determines the medium. There is a clear logic to Paul’s argument in Romans 10, where he contrasts “the righteousness
Thanks to EconJeff for alerting me to this article in the Wall Street Journal by a Christian writer and some time WORLD contributor Tony Woodlief. In trying to figure out how to make his kids enjoy work, he dismisses Adam Smith for reducing work to
The Roman Catholic bishops of Colorado have answered a comment from pro-abortion Catholic Nancy Pelosi, who said that church tradition varied on when human life begins in the womb. The bishops point out that even when it was assumed under the primitive scientific knowledge of
Mollie Z. Hemingway, reporting on the Democratic convention’s interfaith service, usefully sums up the liturgy, structure, and meaning of interfaith services: Interfaith worship services usually follow a Judeo-Christian liturgy but with the insertion of other Scriptures and clergy. So instead of a procession of clergy
We’ve discussed “house churches” and “home churches.” They are the fruit of the notion that “everyone is a minister” and that therefore we don’t need pastors. Then follows the conviction that we do not need denominations, theology, “organized religion,” or the church at all. Michael
The Democrats began their convention with an interfaith service: At the first official event Sunday of the Democratic National Convention, a choir belted out a gospel song and was followed by a rabbi reciting a Torah reading about forgiveness and the future. Helen Prejean, the
Plan Would Protect Health-Care Workers Who Object to Abortion: The Bush administration. . . announced plans to implement a controversial regulation designed to protect doctors, nurses and other health-care workers who object to abortion from being forced to deliver services that violate their personal beliefs.
Will you watch the political conventions? They used to be working groups, passing resolutions, forming coalitions, and making meaningful votes on the candidates. Now they have become just coronations and propaganda forums. There used to at least be the suspense of who the Vice Presidential
The publishing house Thomas Nelson is coming out with The Chronological Study Bible, which not re-arranges not only the books but their passages (including the Psalms) to put everything in chronological order. My impression is that even conservative Bible scholars are not fully agreed on
The challenges Barack Obama will find in campaigning with his vice-presidential pick are detailed here. Briefly, there is his track record of plagiarism; his tendency to bloviate; and his almost humorously proclivity for gaffes (praising Obama as a black man who is “clean”; bragging about
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