Yesterday the National Review, published Christians, Don’t Fall for the ‘Compassion’ Trap. The article made some fine points about how progressive and liberal Christians, in an effort to show compassion on the lost transgender person, are harming both the truth and fellow believers whom they attack...
Most of us will never try to raise money for a project we are working on. I have not done it for my passion project (yet), but I do listen to many productivity podcasts (see my favorites here), and one is called The Pitch. In...
A while back, I put a long comment on a Buzzfeed article entitled 7 Shocking Bible Verses You Probably Won’t Hear In Church. Since then, it has become the most popular comment, so I thought I’d reproduce it and expand on it here. The graphics on...
I have a high regard for Calvinism, since it saved me from (hyper)-Arminianism, experience by me as the Holiness movement, the child of Wesleyan Holiness, whose major error is the idea of Total Sanctification (that we can reach complete sanctification before death through devotion to...
I recently rediscovered a lecture by Brian Mclaren on The Four Historic Models for Church/State Interaction, and realized that (a) they needed one word formal labels, and (b) there is one more. So here they are people. Theocracy – Religious power is supreme and eclipses government...
If you are unfamiliar with NPR’s Intelligence Squared debates, you are missing out. They gather four excellently qualified people to debate, two against two, propositions on currently hot and debated topics. The most recent, entitled Lifespans are Long Enough, brings up many interesting philosophical, moral,...
I was perusing the internet, and came upon a thread on PuritanBoard.com, in which various seminarians were discussing which systematic theology authors were used at their schools. I tallied up the responses and made the charts herein. Certainly, this survey is not representative, since those who...
Updated: 05.01.2017 Changes: Added lots Best Podcasts for Thinking Christians Best Atheist / Secularist / Anti-theist Podcasts However, I wanted to highlight some of my favorite personal productivity podcasts, many of which are run by Christians. Enjoy. My Current Favorites The 5AM Miracle Podcast – Not...
