Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
She's crossed the line of eternity: That is why I no longer consider myself a Muslim apostate, but a lapsed atheist. Of course, I still have a great deal to learn about Christianity. I discover a little more at church each Sunday. But I have recognised, in my own long journey through a wilderness of …
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Matt Broomfield's sad piece about British Charismatic preacher Mike Pilavachi has many issues which need to be unpacked. I won't get to them all, but let's start with this: Anglicans don't need to be smug about this for the following reasons: Pilavachi is in fact an Anglican minister; Broomfield notes this and addresses him as …
I haven't engaged Bobby Grow in a long time (for good reason) but he, in his encapsulation of Karl Barth, Thomas Torrence, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham et.al., makes the following statement: At a purely superficial level, does the reader see how what Barth and Torrance are doing sound a lot like the characteristics present …
When my father was going through the process of becoming an Elder in the United Methodist Church, he was required to take courses on Diversity, … Immigration is religion’s only hope
That's been the underlying assumption behind the lament of the way academia has gone: Today, college degrees are utilitarian documents used to secure good jobs. American workism undermines the traditional purposes of higher education, things like the pursuit of knowledge and the development of virtue. John Henry Newman described the goal of a college education …
https://ifphc.wordpress.com/2023/08/08/gustav-h-schmidt-describes-the-horror-of-soviet-persecution-of-pentecostals-in-the-1930s-2/ In 1988, my own church took in 24 Ukrainian Pentecostals for resettlement in the U.S. (Well, they were a mixture of Ukrainians and Russians, but they were from the Ukraine, southwest of Kiev.) It was one of those experiences that doesn't happen often in life. We got to know people who had endured this …
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2023/07/07/the-question-of-a-weltanschauung-sigmund-freud/ This is the last in Books and Boots' series on Sigmund Freud, where Freud presents one of his most wide-ranging polemics against Christianity. Reviewing that polemic leads the author to find Freud wanting in his critique, to say the last. Although he gives his own reasons, I have a different take on why Freud's …
And they did: Nobody expected Rick Warren’s appeal to be successful—not even Rick Warren. But he still stood up in front of 13,000 Southern Baptists gathered in New Orleans to make his case. “No one is asking any Southern Baptist to change their theology! I’m not asking you to agree with my church,” he insisted, …
As he has passed earlier today, I'll once again revert to my custom of featuring posts I wrote while he was living. Let's start with Pat Robertson vs. the "Shepherding Movement", where he took down this movement. Unfortunately, thanks to people such as Bill Gothard, the Shepherding Movement rolled on in other forms, as is …
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