Jesus Creed
We’ve got a Jesus Creed for (high school) Students coming out next year sometime, and here’s a cover proposal. What say you? Youth pastors? Students? Read more
We’ve got a Jesus Creed for (high school) Students coming out next year sometime, and here’s a cover proposal. What say you? Youth pastors? Students? Read more
We’ve been looking at the essays in a book Theology After Darwin centered around a simple question: What are the implications for Christian theology if Darwin was right? The Christian story and Christian worldview is often summarized as Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Consummation. Modern science – cosmology, astrophysics, geology, paleontology and evolutionary biology has an impact, at times a profound impact, on our understanding of all four of these elements. We’ve hit on a number of these in prior posts,... Read more
Quantitative what? Quantitative easing? What’s that? Recently the Federal government decided to do some quantitative easing to stimulate the economy. One thing we try to do on this blog is keep ourselves informed of such matters, and so I’ve asked our blog companion… Michael Kruse to write this post to help us understand what’s going on with the printing of new money. Those of you who are economists might want to come at this from your angle and help the... Read more
From CNN.com. Paragraph 3 is not as clear as I would like, but .. Who knows about this? Anything involved in your church/faith-based organization? President Barack Obama signed an executive order Wednesday clarifying the ground rules for religious groups partnering with the federal government through the White House’s controversial faith office. The order says that religious organizations receiving federal funds must conduct explicitly religious activities in a time and place that are different from when and where they do government-financed... Read more
Kris and I were recently in Lancaster City, PA, at the invitation of Matt Graybill and the leaders at LCBC. They hosted a wonderful Saturday event for the life group leaders from across their campuses — and it was awesome to be with Matt and others, with Mindy Caliguire (a friend from Willow), and to meet Dave Ashcraft, lead pastor at LCBC. The church is a vibrant witness of a holistic ministry in the Lancaster County area. It was going... Read more
David B. Hart, at First Things, on Tolkien’s anarchism and monarchism: What do you think? Is anarchism a Christian alternative? Is anarchism too cynical or not cynical enough? Is it utopian or utterly convinced humans can’t be trusted? Is it liberal or is it conservative? If one were to devise a political system from scratch, knowing something of history and a great deal about human nature, the sort of person that one would chiefly want, if possible, to exclude from... Read more
Robert Benne is the Director of the Roanoke College Center for Religion and Society who explores for a living the relationship of religion and politics. It’s a good time for his book to come out: Good and Bad Ways to Think about Religion and Politics. He provides a sketch of how people relate religion and politics and then he will offer his own — a Lutheran — proposal. He begins with The Separationists, and he approaches this stuff from the... Read more
I’ve been traveling again this week, and so am somewhat off my normal schedule. My Tuesday post has become a Wednesday post. Today I would like to pose a question and look for some response and insight. Over the last several weeks we’ve been looking at the essays in a book Theology After Darwin centered around a simple question: What are the implications for Christian theology if Darwin was right? I’ve been thinking a lot about this topic lately –... Read more
Have you seen this one? Funny stuff. Read more
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