Source: Pastor Andy Stanley has declared that local congregations should be the “safest place on the planet for students to talk about anything, including same-sex attraction.”… “We just need to decide from now on in our churches when a Middle School kid comes out to his small group leader or a high school young lady comes out to her parents,” said Stanley. “We just need to decide, regardless of what you think about this topic — no more students are... Read more
O God, Whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, That we may behold him in all his redeeming work; Who lives and reigns with you, In the unity of the Holy Spirit, One God, now and for ever. Amen. Read more
George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father?! Thomas Kidd is Professor of History at Baylor University. Kidd is the author or editor of many works in the field of early American history. His latest book, George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father framed this interview. The interview was conducted by David George Moore. Dave blogs at www.twocities.org. Moore: You’ve written biography before with your book on Patrick Henry. What made you choose to write about Whitefield? Kidd:I had worked on the Great... Read more
Our daughter, Laura, taught Jewel Loyd in 1st grade, and this is one wonderful story about Jewel, Notre Dame basketball star and now headed to the WNBA: Image: Getty Images News flash! Jewel was the #1 pick in the WNBA draft — she goes to Seattle. She will be joined by UConn’s Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis. Days later, my mom got the test results back. She sat me down. A stack of paperwork neatly organized into folders separated us. I stared at... Read more
Jesus’ Deepest Pain The Church has once again recently celebrated the resurrection of Jesus the Christ from the dead. Resurrection in mid-history was a breakthrough concept that stunned the people of God. The lead-up to “He is risen!”is, of course, “Crucify him!”We contemplate the horror of “Good Friday”and the despair of silent Saturday. This year I noticed a resurrection of the medical descriptions of a crucifixion death. A number of blogs and some Facebook entries repeated the ghastly details of... Read more
One of the most significant topics in America today, even if rarely talked about intelligently (but often talked about anyway), is political theology. What does it mean to be a “disciple” and to participate “politically”? Is there a “theology of the public life?” Gene Green at Wheaton is the General Editor of a new series called “Ordinary Theology” and one of the early volumes is that of Wheaton Professor, Vincent Bacote, called The Political Disciple: A Theology of the Public Life. I... Read more
Perry Stein: D.C. native Latosha Jackson-Martin wants the blunt sign she posted outside her father’s 50-year-old hair salon in Bloomingdale to remind residents that the neighborhood they see today isn’t the way it always was. “Due to ‘gentrification’ and mixed emotions Jak and Company Hairdressers will be closing,” the sign reads. Jackson-Martin’s father, William Jackson, opened Jak & Co. Hairdressers downtown 50 years ago, and moved it to now-trendy Bloomingdale in 1988. For much of its past quarter-century, the store has been surrounded by a laundromat, a... Read more
We recently finished a long series on Iain Provan’s new book Seriously Dangerous Religion. The final post (Dangerous or Not? … We Can’t Ignore Joshua) touched on an issue that concerns many in discussions of the Old Testament. I outlined Provan’s approach as I saw it in the book and offered some thoughts of my own. Today I have a response from Iain Provan on this topic. Although he offered this response to be posted, he won’t be available to... Read more
Any one who has counseled the grieving — as a parent, as a sibling, as a child, as a pastor, as a friend, as a neighbor — anyone, in other words, who has done so has been asked this question: Will I recognize my loved ones? Will they recognize me? Will we know one another? There are some who have what is often called a theo-centric theory of heaven/the afterlife and they tend to focus on our union with God and... Read more
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