Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Well, at least for their foreign missionaries: After decade-long resistance, the Southern Baptist Convention will admit missionary candidates who speak in tongues, a practice associated with Pentecostal and charismatic churches. The new policy, approved by the denomination’s International Mission Board on Wednesday (May 13), reverses a policy that was put in place 10 years ago. …
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Back in 2006, before the accession of the current Occupant, I began to write a little novel entitled The Ten Weeks. It describes, among other things, the result of a democratically elected left-wing government and how it, using the sexual revolution as one of its weapons (and mob action as another), took progressive power in …
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It's official: I felt drawn to the Episcopal church because it offered some practices I felt were missing in my evangelical experience, like space for silence and reflection, a focus on Christ’s presence at the communion table as the climax and center of every worship service, opportunities for women in leadership, and the inclusion of …
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New Wine/Wine Skin LP 259-08 (1973) I've said more than once--too many times, perhaps--that South Florida is one of the toughest places in the U.S. to be a Christian. So it's good to see that someone was trying to make a dent in the situation, just down the road from where I grew up and …
Nick Park, pastor of the Solid Rock Church and Administrative Bishop of the Church of God in Ireland, gets it: The solution is clear. It’s time for the Government to get out of the marriage business. In fact, for most of human history, marriage was something practiced by communities (both religious and non-religious) and the …
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My church's news site recently noted a gathering down in Jamaica which was a consultation on believers' baptism. There were a couple of ministers from my church there, along with representatives of the World Council of Churches. I'm always nervous when our ministers get involved with WCC people and events. They are like young Siegfried, …
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Who would have thunk it? "However, there are new discussions that stained glass is seen more favorably by younger generations." DeGroot cited recent research conducted by the Barna Group, which found that Millennials preferred more traditional looking sanctuaries instead of so-called trendy buildings. Stained glass windows are one of the fonder memories of the church …
I must have been in an especially catty mood when I posted this on Stand Firm in Faith: Clinton stated that “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” Clinton was only stealing a concept from Southern Baptist Eucharistic theology. I actually got a thumbs up for that. Nevertheless, it's something that's …
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@roddreher makes an interesting, if somewhat open-ended analysis of the subject: ...my general sense was the same I had when I lived in NYC for five years: that the region overall is cool to Christianity in a way that I have not seen anywhere else I’ve lived (except for South Florida). Needless to say, the …
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This comment from one Dr. Clarence Charles on the testimony of Sir Lionel Luckhoo is worth repeating: As I meditate on Psalm 1 today, I contrasted the glorious life of Sir Lionel Luckhoo and its outcome, with the inglorious one of Jim Jones and his clan and their outcome in a piece entitled, "Eleven Days …
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