Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Dr. Kelly responded to my post, a reaction itself to the CBS Sunday morning piece which featured Dr. Kelly on the subject of tithing. This whole adventure has to rate the most frustrating back and forth I have experienced in the time I have been maintaining this web site (it started in August 1997, so …
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It seems that our mainstream media won't get off the subject of tithing, and it also seems that Russell Earl Kelly is making the most of it. Some of you remember I went back and forth with Dr. Kelly last fall on this subject: the pieces were as follows: The Backlash Against Tithing Pickett's Charge …
One of the objectives of many "post-modern" Christian authors is to faithfully echo the style (if not the message) of our culture. But, even though I read and reviewed Leonard Sweet's book The Gospel According to Starbucks, I never appreciated how successful he was in doing that until I saw Starbucks' Chairman Howard Schultz' address …
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Every time I get discouraged at the way U.S. Evangelicals operate, it's good to see some sense coming from somewhere else, as is the case with Sunny Lee's article about the North Korean commando turned South Korean pastor Kim Shin-jo: Kim believes that foreign aid to North Korea has its limitations and that true change …
Matt Boyd's posting of Rickie Moore's eulogy of Brenda Taylor in 1996 brings back a lot of memories and provokes a lot of thought. But I must make some explanation first. Up until now I haven't spent a lot of time on this blog concerning my own church, which I am both a member and …
I've spent some time on this blog talking about the present crisis Evangelical Christianity faces in the U.S., and what might be done about it. There are a lot of explanations of why this is so, but one of the most intriguing comes from David Murrow. In his book Why Men Hate Going to Church, …
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Mike Huckabee tells us the following about his victory in Kansas: "I didn't major in math," the former Arkansas governor told a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference. "I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them." There was a time when Southern Baptists weren't permitted (by group pressure at least) to …
Evidently James Dobson isn't any happier with John McCain than he is with anyone else: As they would ask in Russia, what is to be done? What this shows, unfortunately, is that a wide swath of Evangelical leaders in the U.S. doesn't have a viable game plan for Evangelicals relative to the state. Say what …
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Having made a career of making Muslims mad, he turns his attention towards Mormonism and Mitt Romney: American Christianity often fails to understand its inner tension between the earthly and heavenly kingdoms. Abraham Lincoln's famous epigram said it best: Americans are an "almost chosen people". Mormonism helps clarify the issue, for it is a freakish …
There's been very little said in the Evangelical press about the election of a committed Christian, Lee Myung-bak, as President of the Republic of Korea. Given our current woes with our own "Evangelical," this may be understandable. His position has caused some consternation with non-Christians in Korea (which make up 70% of the population.) But …
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