What’s the importance of doctrine? Is it just “head knowledge” that can be set into opposition with the “state of the heart”? If your doctrine is off, does that mean you are not really a Christian? If not, what difference does it make? Pastor Matt
What’s the importance of doctrine? Is it just “head knowledge” that can be set into opposition with the “state of the heart”? If your doctrine is off, does that mean you are not really a Christian? If not, what difference does it make? Pastor Matt
LifeWay CEO Thom S. Rainer cites the findings of the National Congregations Study from Duke University on how church services have changed over the last 10 years. It isn’t just a matter of contemporary worship styles or the worship wars. The study cites changes that
President Obama’s approval ratings are plummeting, and Democrats’ prospects for the House and Senate look bleak. And yet in presidential polls, Hillary Clinton still beats all Republican candidates by far. So a substantial demographic does not like President Obama but does like Hillary Clinton. These
The most embarrassing Cranach post. . . .Asking your help in identifying the 5 best posts, whereupon no one could think of ANY! (Well, towards the evening there were a few.) So let’s approach this in another way. Here are the top 20 posts on
In a column on efforts to help young people in the Dominican Republic, Michael Gerson finds both from an aid worker and a social scientist that the biggest need of troubled children is love. I’m intrigued by how the social scientist defined it. (more…)
In some creative campaign finance shenanigans, some Democratic candidates have been giving financial and advertising support to Republicans whom they think would be easier to defeat than their primary opponents. This includes funding attack ads casting doubt on whether the frontrunner is conservative enough, all
I’ll soon be going on my second year of this blog being hosted at Patheos, where we’ve built up our audience considerably and been bringing in some income to pay the bills. Patheos is celebrating its 5th year anniversary and, in conjunction with that, is
Being a Christian is not the same as being a conservative, and being a conservative is not the same as being a Christian. Two prominent conservative columnist, George Will and Charles Krauthammer, have come out as atheists, though of the sort that “respect religion and
No, it wasn’t aliens who moved those massively huge blocks for the Pyramids. An ancient drawing shows builders dragging a monument on a sledge with someone pouring water in front of it. Egyptologists interpreted that as some kind of purification ritual. But scientists have discovered
Some of you know Rev. Eric Andrae, a Lutheran pastor of note in Pittsburgh. He sent me an e-mail saying, “I have a very good friend who’s a local country musician of some renown,” Slim Forsythe. “we both just read your book Honky-Tonk Gospel, and
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