It's the home stretch for our election season. This is a "make or break" election in many ways. It will both define and set the course for the kind of country we are and kind of people we are. And it's been competitive. As I discussed in the last post but one, it's also been …
Ever Wonder Why the Republicans are Running a Mormon and a Roman Catholic?
Our hopelessly biased media brings up the subject of Mitt Romney's Mormonism on a regular basis. One way they can do this while not attracting attention to themselves is to go out and interview Evangelicals on why they're struggling with voting for a Mormon. This is a clever diversion that, while bringing up an interesting …
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Churches Aren't the Only Institutions Ruined by Egos
Works even for a "place" like WikiLeaks: But leading Anonymous accounts on Twitter...have now withdrawn their support (of WikiLeaks)...Calling the split “the end of an era”, Anonymous tweeted: “It was an awesome idea, ruined by egos.” I've commented on the adverse effect of "egos inflatable to any size" ruining efforts in the church, especially with …
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Sons Unto Glory: The Harvest is Ripe
(DSG-1) 1976 Coming from Aiken, SC (the state that produced Ark and Southern Joy), this is another one of those albums that pushed 1970's Christian music in a more "rock" direction, a direction many wanted to avoid but none could. And they do it in a magnificent, fun, Southern rock style that's deeply evangelistic to …
A Pentecostal Finally Gets It on the Eucharist
It took long enough, but Jonathan Martin finally "threw his wallet on the table" about this: I do not hold to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation-it is too speculative for my taste. But I do believe very much in real presence, that there is a mysterious way that we partake in the presence and power …
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Atheists in the Pulpit? The Last Step, but Not the First
Albert Mohler documents the rise of the "Clergy Project": The Clergy Project’s own statement is even more blunt, describing itself as “a confidential online community for active and former clergy who do not hold supernatural beliefs.” Most people, believers and unbelievers alike, are no doubt in the habit of thinking that the Christian ministry requires …
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Mitt Romney and the Religion of the Middle Class
So we now have Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee for President. It's an odd thing in many ways, not because the party grandees threw their lot in with him--that's par for the course. It's odd because they were able to get it past the people who supposedly dominate the party--the "Religious Right", those dreadful …
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The Alethians and the Right Angle with David Pope: One Way
(Myrrh MST 6506) 1972 UK One curiosity of Christian records in the "Jesus Music" era are albums where one side is recorded by a different group than the other. A helpful way for two groups to share the cost, it had the added bonus of not requiring one group to come up with more that …
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The Reformation and Missions: Theology and Doctrine
From J. Herbert Kane's A Concise History of the Christian World Mission: One would naturally expect that the spiritual forces released by the Reformation would have prompted the Protestant churches of Europe to take the gospel to the ends of the earth during the period of world exploration and colonisation which began about 1500. But …
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Watchman Nee on the Inspiration of the New Testament
In perusing much Evangelical and Charismatic literature, one gets the impression that the "mantic" theory of the inspiration of the Scriptures is the "correct" theory and anything else is the product of "liberals". I dealt with this in the book I co-authored with Leonard Albert, Apologetics for the Rest of Us. A very cogent presentation …
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