I’ve been putting off writing and posting this, but Sanctus’ post on the Southern Baptists debating this issue has forced my hand, if you please. So it’s time for this blog to broach a subject that not so long ago wouldn’t merit discussion in Evangelical circles. Should Christians drink? (I obviously mean alcoholic beverages.) In …
Pat Robertson States the Obvious on Marijuana Penalties
But the Washington Post and others had to get out the brown pants after seeing it: Television evangelist Pat Robertson has made inflammatory remarks in recent years that offend gays, Muslims and others, but a recent comment he made on his Christian Broadcasting Network was more notable for whom it pleased: people who want to …
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The Christmas Story: William Tyndale's New Testament
From here: And it chanced in those days that there went out a commandment from Augustus the emperor, that all the world should be taxed. And this taxing was the first, and executed when Cyrenius was lieutenant in Syria. And every man went unto his own city to be taxed. And Joseph also ascended from …
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Who Would Be the Real Loser if We Pitched the Charitable Deduction?
I'm seeing more and more calls for the abolition of the charitable deduction, like this one from Martin Hutchinson at Asia Times Online: At this season of goodwill, my thoughts immediately turn to that unsung hero Ebenezer Scrooge, and this year, in view of the subject's topicality, to his possible thoughts on today's major economic …
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More on the Image and Likeness in Moses Maimonides
Back in September I posted The Difference Between Image and Likeness in Genesis, which discussed both Orthodox and Jewish concepts of Genesis 1:26. Recently I received a series of Twitter messages from Y Sher as follows: You understood Maimonides distinction between Image (Tzelem) and Likeness (Dmuth), he seems to equate both to man's divine capacity …
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Laying it Out for the "King James Only" People
Nick Park makes an important point for those who think that the KJV was Paul's version: Lots of things end up becoming traditional as a result of such historical accidents. But what is really odd is that many modern day Baptists and Puritans (in a country that long ago rejected the authority of kings, freed …
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The Strange Course of Marriage vs. Class
Albert Mohler comments on the upending of the whole trend line of class vs. personal morality: For most of the last century, we have been concerned about the alienation of the cultural and intellectual elites from the institution of marriage. Starting at least as far back as the 1920s, the most highly educated Americans moved …
Pat Robertson Supports the Abolition of Civil Marriage
That's the way I interpret this (advance to about 6:30 in the video): http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnplayer/cbnPlayer.swf?s=/archive/club/700club120610_WS Sooner or later there's going to be a fracas on the right when enough people realise that those of us who support the abolition of civil marriage are at odds with those who are "defending" it, but until then... Interesting to …
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It's "Mea Culpa" Time on the BBC for the Environmental Movement
As the Telegraph reports, it's a surprise it got on the Beeb at all, but there it is: This was no such programme. Instead, it was a platform for every sinner that repenteth. Former hippy Greens, directors of Greenpeace, the chairmen of the Copenhagen Climate Council and the like, queued up to admit error. Their …
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Katharine Jefferts-Schori on Leadership: Has an Entire Generation Given Up on Democratic Process?
This fascinating video from the Washington Post by Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts-Schori opens with this comment: ...and at some point it became necessary to shift approach and to say: "If you're going to stay as a leader in this organization, you have to be engaged, even if you don't like this decision over here. …
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