American Thinker has a nice post entitled Judeo-Christian Values, in which they examine America’s Founding Fathers’ view of religion and…
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What would make a fundamentalist reject or reclassify some of his fundamental brethren as “neo” fundamentalist, and why would they…
My local liberal rag (SF Chronicle) has a nice article about how we treat scientists as our modern priests, entitled…
So, in researching biblical principles of government, I came up on this page, which had the following list of "biblical"…
I just found a great First Things article from 2003 discussing the faith of the founders. It has this great…
Today’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross features two interviews from opposite sides of this issue (audio should be posted by…
The term “Christian nation” is ambiguous and asking for a useless fight. The question is not a binary “should we…
In The History of Theological Education (2015), historian Justo Gonzalez examines the historical events and ideologies that influenced the Christian approach to theological and general education, as well as the interplay between secular and Christian historical trends in education.
Augustine’s work Confessions is one of his major works, and includes not only timeless wisdom comparing this world to the kingdom that is coming, it introduces such imporant concepts as original sin, the timelessness of God, and our disordered loves.
Introduction In Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes, authors Richards and O’Brien offer many reasons why Western Christians may be misunderstanding…
I recently rediscovered a lecture by Brian Mclaren on The Four Historic Models for Church/State Interaction, and realized that (a) they…
Masjid Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq is an Afghani mosque in Hayward, California. It is a smaller replica of the well-known Blue…
George W. Braswell Jr.’s Islam: Its Prophet, Peoples, Politics and Power is a concise yet fairly comprehensive introduction to the…
In A Muslim View of Christianity: Essays on Dialogue (Faith Meets Faith), Mahmoud Ayoub attempts to initiate, describe and model…
One of the Facebook forums that I watch but rarely participate in (more heat than light) is called Atheism vs Christianity…
In 2014, I attended the inaugural Rethinking Hell Conference, at which John Stackhouse Jr. gave an outrageously fine opening lecture…
I have a confession – while I hold to the traditional Biblical views regarding the unnatural and immoral nature of…
I am currently reading Dr. Jerry Walls’ book on purgatory (for Protestants!) entitled Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation, and one…
The traditional view of hell, that of eternal conscious torment of the lost, is under fire again, this time, not…
This post is part of a series. Pascal’s famous ‘wager’ is often misunderstood, and maligned by anti-theists as an argument…
A recent book by E. Calvin Beisner entitled Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry into the Environmental Debate gave me…
My brother’s old church actually preached harshly against gays, and the pastor used some unkind epithets. He asked me about…
I’m sure I’m sounding like a broken record, but as long as I get significant feedback and engagement on this…
Many pundits are now using the term “angry left” to describe the liberal analog of the “angry right.” Sites like…