In another contribution to the “Why can’t there be Lutheran Baptists” discussion, Christopher Jackson, a Lutheran attending grad school at the Southern Baptists Theological Seminary, a haven for for Calvinist baptists, weighs in. He says there are indeed Lutheran influences at SBTS, as well
Roman Catholics have been launching a major world-wide evangelism effort. It includes “witnessing,” knocking on doors, and sharing what Jesus has done in my life. They are adopting techniques associated with evangelicals. Do you think Catholics might have some advantages in the competition for the
The Church of England has been opposing gay marriage, but votes in Parliament demonstrate that they can’t stop it. So the state church is dropping its attempts to kill the gay marriage bill and is concentrating instead on improving it; that is, making gay marriage
As we posted about last week, the federal government has been secretly monitoring millions of phone calls. Now it has been learned that the feds are also secretly monitoring massive amounts of internet activity by tapping into servers of internet companies. (more…)
The worst criminals tend to be very religious. In fact, they often use religion to rationalize their misdeeds. Of course, in doing so, their theology is horrendous. Nicholas C. DiDonato reports on some research that studied How criminals use religion to justify their crimes. Details
The federal government has been monitoring the phone calls of some 10 million Verizon subscribers (nearly 10% of them), thanks to a secret court order that initiated what is being called the largest and most open-ended surveillance effort ever and a grave assault on civil
Norway is considered a hyper-secularized country, but its biggest bestselling book today is a new translation of the Bible. (more…)
That post we had the other day about why there can be Calvinist Baptists but not Lutheran Baptists turned out to be part of a very interesting discussion in the Christian blogosphere. Superblogger Joe Carter wrote a post summarizing the various points in the debate.
Our pastor had some good reflections in our church newsletter on the 17-year locusts (a.k.a. “cicadas”) coming out of the ground around these parts. He manages to connect cicadas to people, sin, the church, death, resurrection, and baptism! (more…)
On the eve of the last election, the venerable polling firm Gallup predicted that Mitt Romney would beat Obama 49% to 48%. Actually, Obama won, 52%-48%. The company has been studying what went wrong. Despite Republican complaints that pollsters were using methods that were undercounting
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