Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
There’s a great deal of kerfuffle over Ann Coulter’s article about Samaritan’s Purse physician Kent Brantly, his contracting Ebola in the course of treating it Liberia, his transport to the CDC in Atlanta and the cost associated with the entire process. Evidently she thinks him insufficiently patriotic to have gone to another place and fight …
Continue reading "The Disciples of Ayn Rand and the Disciples of Jesus Christ"
A familiar mantra comes from Billy Graham's grandson: "The core message of the Christian faith has been lost in the public sector because what we are primarily known for is our political ideology or opinion," Tchividjian told The Christian Post. Over the last 30 years, the Religious Right has replaced Christianity's foremost message of the …
Continue reading "If You Don't Want People's Opinion, Don't Ask"
The oldest Pentecostal educational institution that I am aware of is the Holmes Bible College in Greenville, SC.  For many years Dr. Paul F. Beacham was its President, impacting the lives of many of his students.  In his 1950 book Questions and Answers on the Scriptures and Related Subjects (published by the Pentecostal Holiness Church publishing house), …
Continue reading "So Who Are My Mother and My Brothers? Part II"
I was recently directed to Frank Matthew Powell's blog post Dear American Church…I Am Not Renewing My Membership This Year.  He's touched on a subject I've mon occasion but now need to take up in earnest: the church as a club. Most people who decry the church becoming a private club have never spent much …
Continue reading "The Church as Club: My Response to Frank Matthew Powell"
In the middle of a victory for conscience, this: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that certain "closely held" for-profit businesses can cite religious objections in order to opt out of a requirement in ObamaCare to provide free contraceptive coverage for their employees. The whole business of closely held corporations has been lost in the predictable …
Continue reading "Hobby Lobby: Another Victory for Closely Held Corporations"
It's that time of the biennium again: Lord willing, the Church of God will gather in Orlando towards the end of next month to consider the business of the church.  One think that makes this Assembly different is that there are no Executive Committee members to be elected, although the state Administrative Bishops will go through …
Continue reading "Comments on the Agenda for the 2014 Church of God General Assembly"
Sarah Hey's piece on @standfirm on the necessity of ACNA's people getting involved in their church's politics reminds me of something that took place when I started to work for Church of God Lay Ministries and Paul L. Walker was our Presiding Bishop. Walker was a successful pastor in Atlanta before he moved onto the …
Continue reading "Where Two or Three Gather Together, There Will be Politics"
Those of you who follow my Twitter feed noted an link to a CNBC article about why my contemporaries are cohabiting in their dotage. Â I sensed a little pushback on Facebook on this, so I think that, in my advocacy for the abolition of civil marriage, some clarification is in order. I do not think …
Continue reading "A Clarification on My Position on Civil Marriage"
For the entire work and an interactive table of contents, click here. It is the custom of Evangelical and Pentecostal authors these days to finish their works with the confident assertion that, if the reader follows what is in the book they have just read, everything will be all right, as the advice given is …
Continue reading "Born to be Alive: After the Second Chapter"
For the entire work and an interactive table of contents, click here. They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything …
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