Category: Christian Culture
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ETS Paper 2012: Hollywood, Geneva, and Athens
So, earlier this year I submitted the abstract for my thesis as a proposal for this years annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. Surprisingly, it was accepted, and I was faced with the prospect of editing it down to a paper that could be coherently presented in 40 minutes or so. I put this…
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The Christian Calling To Citizenship
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What Your Mind Style Says About Your View of God: Randoms
Tuesday, I started explaining how your mind style influences (to some extent at least) how you view God. If nothing else, your mind style should be looked at as a kind of baseline that can either be balanced out with biblical teaching, or taken to an extreme. It doesn’t determine your view of God, but…
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10 Questions A Pro Choice Candidate Is Never Asked By The Media
10 Questions A Pro Choice Candidate Is Never Asked By The Media
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Churches, Revolutions, and Empires
Given the time of year, it just seems natural to do a little more political reading. In Churches, Revolutions, & Empires, Ian Shaw is giving a kind of political history of the Western world from 1789-1914. Or, from just after the American War of Independence up until the dawn of World War I. Overview The…
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Is The Harbinger Legit?
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The Worst Thing Ever Put In An Offering Basket
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Why There Is No British Joel Osteen
Somebody asked me recently whether Osteen and Hinn were big in the UK. My answer was simple: no, not at all, nothing like they are here in the USA. Why is that? came the follow-up, to which I replied: They simply wouldn’t work in the UK because the idiom is all wrong; the British do…
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Carl Trueman’s Problem With The New Left
Most of us have come across those evangelicals who, in reaction to the Religious Right, like to parade the fact they they vote Democratic in a kind of schoolboyish “Aren’t I naughty?” kind of way. It’s often an empty gesture, a kind of theological vegetarianism; vegetarians do something that costs them nothing, but my, oh…
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Politics According To The Bible
Well, it’s almost that time of year. That time that comes every fall in even numbered years and counts the most every four years. You know, that time. That time when Facebook friend lists get pruned because some people are just a little too politically vocal about the wrong side of an issue. That time…