Because Christians are most often harping about immoral sex, and say little about the joys of sex within marriage, they are often viewed as “against…
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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 famous quote comes from Martin Luther the reformer. Interestingly, infidels have long used this quote out of context to show that religion and Christianity…
I just discovered (via the Secular Nation podcast, one of the many atheist/anti-theist/secularist podcasts I follow) Margaret Downey’s answer to the Christmas Tree, the Tree of Knowledge – that is, an atheists’ substitute for the religious celebration of Christ. Downey…
Gateways to Better Education, a “national organization dedicated to helping public schools teach Judeo-Christian history, thought, and values” is sponsoring the National Free to Speak…
French physicist and philosopher of science Bernard d’Espagnat recently was awarded the Templeton Prize, the largest annual prize in the world, which seeks to reconcile…
In What I Like About Rick Warren, New City Press has really done a nice job of reconsidering the overly negative, critical approach that many…
CT has a nice article entitled Reductionist Justice, in which the author discusses the error of Job’s friends, which was to reduce all suffering to…
Today, I had lunch with my favorite neofundamentalist pastor, Thomas. Over lunch, we discussed some things, and I wanted to record some topics and insights…
In a shamefully short interview (two questions?), Brian McLaren released a nice overview of how the church has historically interacted with the state, and blithely…
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion… – First Amendment of the United States Constitution The words seem so straightforward and simple.…
This post is part of a series. I urge you to listen to the first and second parts (second part tomorrow) of the two part…
To tell the truth, I’ll never get to any of these books. I have 50 new books at my bedside unread, and over 200 on…
In her recent book Unprotected, UCLA campus psychologist Dr. Miriam Grossman discusses how women’s bodies release oxytocin during childbirth AND during sexual activity, and that…
Gordon McDonald, one of my favorite authors, has written a nice piece on what he thinks evangelicals should be looking for and asking about potential…
Dinesh D’Souza, popular conservative author and former senior policy analyst in Ronald Reagan’s White House, recently released his latest book entitled The Enemy At Home:…
The Gates of Vienna has a nice post on The Danish Model of dealing with Islam. GoV argues that: The Danes are light-years ahead of…
We have, but we feel uneasy about it, and we are not alone in evangelicalism. Check out the excerpts below. Of note is the last…
There are plenty of books out there declaring the US to be a "Christian nation," and rebuttals. But for fun, I wanted to publish some…
While the two religions do share some similarities, there are some stark differences between these two monotheistic religions, including their soteriology, the lives and teaching…
Talk2action, the progressive activism site, is taking Barak Obama to task for his wise words on the relationship between faith and politics. In a post…
At the recent Call to Renewal conference, sponsored by Sojourners, a “Christian Left” organization, Barak Obama gave the keynote address (streaming audio), and said some…
One of my favorite new anti-evangelical sites is talk2action.org. Not only does it help me keep up with what is hot in evangelicalism, it helps…
Scholar and author Stephanie Coontz explores the myths of traditional marriage in an excellent podcast. She is liberal and pro-gay, but her lecture, The Way…