Category: Christianity

December 30, 2011

Thoughts on the KJV 400th Anniversary

Filed under: Christianity - 30 Dec 2011

I didn’t want to let the 400th Anniversary of the King James Version without comment.

Much has been said about the King James Version, which spent the best part of its 400 year history as the Bible of choice for Americans of …

December 14, 2011

High Stakes Football: Denver Broncos Super Bowl Victory Could Set Liberalism Back Decades

Filed under: Christianity - 14 Dec 2011

Joshua Hammerman shows what happens when you combine 1) taking football too seriously and 2) extreme liberalism:
If Tebow wins the Super Bowl, against all odds, it will buoy his faithful, and emboldened faithful can do insane things, like burning …

December 6, 2011

The Freak Show School of Covering Christianity

Filed under: Christianity - 06 Dec 2011

The U.K. Telegraph has a report on a Baptist Church in Kentucky that is wrong in so many ways:

Members at Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, in Kentucky, have voted to prevent interracial couples from becoming members or taking part …

November 18, 2011

Thoughts on the Death Penalty

Filed under: Christianity,Death Penalty - 18 Nov 2011

I will not be cheering or celebrating the long overdue execution of Paul Ezra Rhoades, nor do I find it something deplorable. It is, one of those unnecessary and unpleasant things that is necessary when someone has committed a heinous crime.

Of …

September 30, 2011

When the World Leavens the Church

Filed under: Christianity - 30 Sep 2011

CNN has a report indicating that Evangelical teens are only slightly less likely than the general population to engage in premarital sex:
While the study’s primary report did not explore religion, some additional analysis focusing on sexual activity and religious …

September 20, 2011

Shack Wars

Filed under: Christianity - 20 Sep 2011

I’ve received two invitations from fellow Christians to attend Paul Young’s appearance in Boise to discuss his book, The Shack. One invite was to listen to Mr. Young speak. The other was to hand …

August 17, 2011

Religion in Politics: What Matters

Filed under: Christianity,Politics - 17 Aug 2011

 

Sunday morning religion wasn’t limited to churches this past week. NBC’s David Gregory spent the last third of his interview with GOP Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann asking about her personal views on such issues …

May 24, 2011

Harold Camping Asks for a (Second) Mulligan

Filed under: Christianity - 24 May 2011

The media in its continuing effort to make Christians look nutty is giving more discussion to Harold Camping’s apocalypse talk after 5/21 was a bust with Camping now insisting the world will end on October 21.

The scripture is very …

April 24, 2011

The Easter Song

Filed under: Christianity,Video Blogging - 24 Apr 2011

Alleluia! He is risen indeed!

April 11, 2011

Jones Headings for Fred Phelps Territory

Filed under: Christianity - 11 Apr 2011

Christians should not be afraid to challenge Islam, but that doesn’t mean we should follow the destructive path of Terry Jones. Jones burned a Koran and states that an effigy of Mohammad may be next:

Pastor Terry Jones of the …

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