There are the basic world view questions: 1. Origins: Where did life and humanity originate? 2. The Problem: Why is there suffering, sickness, and death?…
There are three ways to reform bad religion. These methods of reform may be described as modernization, restoration, and liberalization. Modernization, in a religious context,…
Once upon a time there were three Buddhist monks who lived in a monastery. Each day, the monks would walk along a lengthy path to…
Robert over at echurch.com is asking about creating and supporting community within churches. He has mentioned funtionality similar to linkedin.com, as well as making other…
What signifies a healthy church? Is it a building? Or the number of people who attend on Sunday morning? Or the number of activities the…
Scripture instructs us parents not to provoke our children to anger: Ephesians 6:4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring…
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If a man asks you this question, beware! He is most likely just looking for an argument. In fact, a question like this is just…
A friend of mine told me today that the thing that really bugs him about religious people is that they never want to critically evaluate…
This post is part of a series. In Part 2, I covered the spiritual function of Intuition. In this installment, I cover the second of the…
This post is part of a series. John Calvin coined the phrase Sensus Divinitatis (Sense of the Divine) to describe the innate sense and awareness of…
This post is part of a series. Many great Christians in history, such as Andrew Murray and Watchman Nee, have emphasized that the bible teaches…
I love the Church – but I don’t love how we ‘do church’ on Sundays. An hour of passive listening, often followed by everyone going their…
This post is part of a series on Can we be good without God? In Part I introduced and gave an overview of the question under…
The first approach one should take to treating depression is that of treating physical causes. By addressing these, you can eliminate them as causes and…
While the scriptures are clear on the morality of some issues, on the more mundane issues, it is largely silent, and it is up to…
This famous quote comes from Martin Luther the reformer. Interestingly, infidels have long used this quote out of context to show that religion and Christianity…
Today, the Progressive Association of Not So Intimidating EvangelicalS (PANSIES) announced that they have rejected the authority of the scriptures in which Jesus uses offensive…
This post is part of a series on Can we be good without God? I just finished listening to a somewhat frustrating debate between atheist…
In light of the whole Times Square Mosque, I thought to remind us that perhaps we need another kind of memorial – like the heads…
Here’s my first sermon as an ordained pastor, and here’s what was in it: Get there Quiet your soul Pour out your soul Read and…
I was recently in a discussion at the skeptic site NW Ohio Skeptics, and got into a discussion about the differences between Evangelicals and Fundamentalists,…
Ok, since I really enjoyed the video below, I thought to read the short (16 page) Arizona immigration bill (PDF) myself and see what all…
I have moved off of Firefox for Google Chrome, for now. If you load the DEV version (5.x), you finally have an almost worthy browser…