D. H. Williams, a theology professor at Baylor, offers a searching critique of contemporary worship as practiced in the typical megachurch, published in Christianity Today, no less. You need to read it all, but here is the opening description of the service: On a recent
Australian Frank Furedi, a professor of sociology at the University of Kent, looks at the sociology of the gay marriage debate, how the cultural elite are using the issue to achieve moral superiority over the non-elite. From a sociological perspective, the ascendancy of the campaign
Representatives of the World Evangelical Alliance (evangelicals), the World Council of Churches (mainline liberal Protestants, plus the Orthodox [why?]), and the Pontifical Council on Inter-religious Dialogue (Roman Catholic) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, issued a document entitled “Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World: Recommendations for Conduct.”
It looks like the GOP presidential nomination may be a contest between Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney. So far Romney seems to be leading, but Bachmann so far is outdistancing the alternative candidates. On Bachmann’s Lutheranism, which we talked about earlier, she has been a
The late Marshall McLuhan was the pioneering scholar of media and the information environment, recognizing how technology was changing the culture and predicting what is now happening before our eyes. He was controversial and cutting-edged with some hailing him as being a seminal thinker on
The New Testament reading at church last Sunday was Matthew 10:34- 39. Pastor Douthwaite pointed out that if the reading had come one week earlier, we would be hearing it on Father’s Day : 34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace
Kiddies, you are now free! Free to play Grand Theft Auto! The Supreme Court has ruled that you have the constitutional right to play violent video games! States cannot ban the sale or rental of ultraviolent video games to children, the Supreme Court ruled Monday,
An effort is afoot to dig up the body of William Shakespeare: Paleontologists are looking to examine the remains of William Shakespeare, hoping to unlock the mysteries of the life and death of the world’s most famous playwright — and to prove that the poet
So asks Reformed blogger Kevin DeYoung: What up with Lutherans? More to the point: where are they? I’m looking for help from those of you out there who know the Lutheran world better than I do. I look around at what seems vibrant in evangelicalism and
Though New York state has now legalized gay marriage, Katherine Francke, a gay law professor at Columbia, has qualms, worrying that marriage might restrict the freedom gays now enjoy. She also fears that the parceling out of benefits will now go only to marriage couples,
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