Our recent post about proselytizing has gotten me thinking about “sheep-stealing.” One kind of proselytizing is really evangelism, proclaiming the Gospel to a non-believer, with the purpose of changing the person from whatever religion he or she has or does not have into a Christian.
The Trump administration on July 24-26 convened a major diplomatic symposium on religious freedom. Eighty nations (including some with bad religious freedom records) were represented at the “Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom.” Read this account of the meeting and what transpired. The participating nations agreed
Fellow Patheos blogger Mark Driscoll has written a long and thoughtful post on the teaching that there is no salvation apart from Christ. This takes him into the related subjects of evangelism and “proselytizing.” We feel uneasy about trying to persuade someone to change religions
Sir Roger Scruton is a British philosopher who has written perceptively on a wide range of topics. (See, for example, his short book on beauty.) I heard him speak at Patrick Henry College. In all of the subjects that he has treated, Scruton shows himself
The Bible is a really good book, most people would agree, but who has time to read all that stuff? So a Christian publisher in the U.K. has come up with The One Hour Bible: From Adam to Apocalypse in Sixty Minutes. This is not
The latest cause is banning plastic straws, which are said to pollute the oceans. So restaurants, coffee houses and fast food joints are getting rid of them, sometimes voluntarily and sometimes because they are being forced to by local laws and regulations. Starbucks is phasing
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a truly great Christian author. He was a Christian apologist who wrote with humor, energy, and an infectious joy, as well as startlingly illuminating insights. In a style filled with exuberant paradoxes, Chesterton showed that Christianity is no dull, dreary, life-suppressing
Some parents refuse to take their children to church so that they can choose their own religious identity when they get older. That misguided approach to a child’s spiritual being is now being carried over to a child’s physical being. Such “gender-neutral” parenting means “gender-neutral”
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has just issued a major study of the doctrine and practice of confession and absolution. The report by the Commission on Theology and Church Relations establishes the Biblical and theological basis for confessing your sins to a pastor and receiving
Historian Andrew J. Bacevich warns us against slipping into “the paranoid style in American politics.” He draws on a book with that title published in 1964. The author, Richard Hofstadter, alerts readers to the dangers of “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy” and worrying about falling
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