I'm not exactly sure how old this is; I think it goes back to 1998. A Good Bargain It took a long time for my schedule to open up but at last I was able to attend my first Promise Keepers stadium event (arena event, to be exact.) During the lunch break our group decided …
Fruit That Lasts
"It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name." (John 15:16) This verse deals with two important issues -- the nature of Jesus' calling and the nature …
Church and State: A Different View
The recent changes in the leadership (such as it is) composition in the U.S. give the Evangelical community an opportunity for a serious "reality check" in their idea regarding the relationship of Christianity with the state. So let's take a serious look at what the New Testament really says, instead of what everyone else says …
Blessed are the Merciful
My first semester at Texas A&M University, I was required to take Analytical Geometry. My teacher was a former seminary student (come to think of it, so was my Calculus teacher!) Generally it wasn't a difficult course but it had its moments. One of them came with a particularly difficult problem we had for homework. …
Newsflash to Fundamentalists: You Are the Counterculture Now
Buried in the middle of a story of how an Ohio Christian school is punishing one of its students for attending a public school prom is this: The handbook for the 84-student Christian school says rock music "is part of the counterculture which seeks to implant seeds of rebellion in young people's hearts and minds." …
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The Non-Issue of Torture in the Bush Administration
I've about had enough of the blather (especially from my Christian colleagues) about the whole business of torture during the last administration. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the Obama Administration's reasons for shying away from prosecution are entirely practical. They are as follows: Prosecuting one's predecessors makes it easier to …
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David Martin’s Preface to the New Testament
One cannot be happy without knowing God, and one can only know him well by the divine Scriptures. The world is, in truth, like a great open book where one can see the brilliant handiwork of an infinite power and a wisdom worthy of worship. The heavens declare, said the Prophet King, the glory of …
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Book Review: Unchristian America
I’ve regularly lamented on this blog the failure of the “Religious Right” to “bring America back to God.” It seems that not only has our President proclaimed to the world that we are not a Christian nation, but also the likes of James Dobson has admitted that the whole effort has ended in failure. How …
Lending to the Lord, and Getting Back
In preparation for his "Palm Sunday entry" into Jerusalem, Our Lord did the following: “When they had almost reached Jerusalem, as far as Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent on two of his disciples. “Go to the village facing you,” he said; “and, as soon as you get there, you will …
The Rule of Law, or, If You Don’t Believe in a Civilisation, It Won’t Last
Earlier I posted a quote from Charles Freeman on dollar hegemony. The source behind that is here, but he also touched on another interesting subject that no one is talking about: There's another issue that no one's paying any attention to, and that is the consequences of the erosion of the world order that we …
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