This is a rather lengthy piece. So, in an effort to hopefully shorten it a bit by creating a common starting point, here’s a silly metaphor as an introduction: In a large American city was a church with an innovative and captivating minister. The minister had grown the church over a couple of decades…
My heart hurts. It doesn’t really matter why; it just does. It’s a feeling with which all of us are familiar because we live in a fallen world. I am sure that you know it well: The weight of the world seems for a moment to rest, Atlas-like, upon your shoulders. The crushing pain…
The oft-wrong and perpetually-biased New York Times recently (14 Jan 16) ran an article entitled “Anglican Church Disciplines U.S. Episcopals Over Gay Marriages.” The article both misunderstands Christianity and misrepresents the “discipline” laid out by the Anglican Communion (neither of which is necessarily surprising from the NYT). These are two things that I’d like to…
I’ve made the case (or at least mentioned it) many times before on this blog about how human nature is inherently broken. We are NOT inherently good. When we were conceived, we were wrapped in a fallen flesh. Don’t get me wrong, we aren’t born with sin already on us, but we ARE born in…
Half-asleep, I slapped my hand onto my phone to shut off the alarm and then – sighing heavily – rotated my body on the fulcrum that is my butt to put my feet flat on the floor. As lucidity first began stabbing through the sleep-fog in my brain, all I could think was, “I…
As a newly-minted sophomore at Harding University, I walked into the theater-style classroom and stepped halfway down the terraces before sliding into a desk near the very center of the room. In most other classes I would have sought a seat in the back corner, near the exit, knowing that I would be anxious…
The Church of Sweden has appointed a lesbian Bishop … yes, a lesbian Bishop. That’s right, a word that comes from the Old English bisc(e)op, which itself derives from the Latin ebiscopus, which comes from the Greek episkopos – which is the word used in Philippians 1:1, 1 Timothy 3:2, Titus 1:7, and 1 Peter…
(Photo of Pope Francis by Franco Origlia – Getty Images) It’s official … it’s what you’ve all been waiting for … Pope Francis has declared 1 September 2015 as the first annual International Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation! It is the natural follow-up to his encyclical calling for political, social and…
… how can anyone call themselves a Christian and still advocate for socialist and humanist ideas? (Specifically: limitation of freedom of religion, speech, private property rights; redistribution of wealth; creation/expansion of tariffs and other intrusions into free trade; creation/expansion of the welfare state; lack of support for traditional institutions like marriage, sex and the family;…
After seeing weeks of propaganda pushed on the populace insisting that the Supreme Court’s ruling on homosexual marriage is something moral and steeped in our nation’s tradition of liberty, I’m upset. After reading about the shootings in Chattanooga, enabled by a spineless national security apparatus and laws intended for the disarmament of the citizenry,…
