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From Stephen C. Webster: People who believe in an angry, punishing God are much more likely to suffer from a variety of mental illnesses, a scientific study published in the April edition of Journal of Religion & Health finds. The study, conducted by Marymount Manhattan College Assistant Psychology Professor Nava Silton, used data from the 2010 Baylor Religion Survey of US Adults to examine the links between beliefs and anxiety disorders like social dysfunction, paranoia, obsession and compulsion. To do this, Silton viewed... Read more
Wrath Reconsidered – Amos 7 I’m sure you’ll know what I mean when I say that being a pastor is a lot like having a family member who is constantly in the tabloids. I mean: here I am with this public relationship with someone who routinely shocks and outrages a reliable percentage of the population. While I can only guess what kinds of questions relatives of Lindsay Lohan and Tiger Woods are forced to answer, I do know the feeding-frenzy... Read more
O God, whose Son Jesus is the good shepherd of your people: Grant that when we hear his voice we may know him who calls us each by name, and follow where he leads; who, with you and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
The Texas Ranger evidently doesn’t like our home field: “If they’re looking for a guy to push the button when they blow the place [Wrigely Field] up, I’ll do it,” Berkman told the Star-Telegramand Dallas Morning News. “It’s one of the worst places in baseball for, well, just about anything. I really don’t like it. I read where they got approval for some more upgrades. Count me in the group of people extremely happy to see that. I guess I’m just spoiled.... Read more
From Ed Hird, an Anglican minister in Vancouver, who thinks Christian and yoga do not belong together. What say you? You may find this a stretching article in body, mind and spirit. I have intentionally avoided writing this article for years, because I knew that it would be unavoidably controversial. With genuine reluctance, I faced my conflict avoidance, obeyed the Lord and read hundreds of yoga books in our local public libraries. In preparing this article, I have not read... Read more
It’s Spring and Kris and I are looking forward to the growth in our garden and backyard, including hope that our wisteria will flourish this summer. Speaking of wisteria, here’s an image of a monster wisteria! Pope Francis goes universal on appointments: “VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis named eight cardinals from around the globe Saturday to advise him on running the Catholic Church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, marking his first month as pope with a major initiative to reflect... Read more
John Frame, at TGC’s blog, is clipped to say these important things about the almost always fallacious use of the slippery slope. First, he defines it well: A true and valid reductio must be distinguished from its fallacious imitators, one of which is the ‘slippery slope’ argument. A slippery slope argument goes like this. ‘If you take position A, you run the risk of taking position B; position B is wrong, therefore A is also wrong.’ Then he says what it really... Read more
This post is by John Frye. Soterian Gospel = Proof-texts and Logic We considered last week the reduced, soterian gospel and its relation to the church. “Jesus died on the cross so you can go to heaven when you die” has, we noted, no relation to the church. That “gospel” allegedly precedes and creates the church, but once it has done its thing: getting a person saved, it rests. Let’s go inside that gospel as it is presented, aware of... Read more
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