Hunting Down the Holy Spirit

One interesting privilege I had during the Brownsville Revival here in Pensacola was meeting groups going to and from the revival. At the time I was a member of Pine Forest United Methodist Church, and groups would stay in the Family Life Center there in order to be in range to get to the [...]

Received: For the Life of the World

In some much earlier discussions on health care, which I never really completed in any satisfactory manner, I was discussing Alexander Schmemann’s book For the Life of the World with Mark Olson of Pseudo-Polymath. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a copy of the book so as to discuss it intelligently.

I sent off for one [...]

Yes, Race Influences my Vote

There! That should be provocative enough as a title. Actually this post will be more of a gathering of election thoughts at this point in the campaign.

But first, to honor the title, I think that there are very few people in this country who can honestly claim that race has no influence on [...]

Pelicans win 2nd Game in Series against Sports 4-0

. . . and our son’s friend Brandon Sing (also our house guest) hit a two run homer in the first. Story in the Pensacola News Journal.

Robert Reich on Gladiator Politics

I would suggest that everyone read this post. When Robert Reich was Secretary of Labor I didn’t like him that much, but he is truly expressing wisdom in this post.

Meditations on a Healing Service

Or perhaps I should call it thoughts resulting from meditations on a healing service. But that makes a long title.

I’ve mentioned here before that my wife and I recently transferred our membership to First United Methodist Church in Pensacola. This past Sunday we had the opportunity to attend a healing service at our [...]

4 Posts on Scripture

A roundup at the Moderate Christian Blogroll blog.

Pelicans Back Home – Win 5-3

Update: The Pensacola News Journal now has a report here.

After a depressing road trip and a delay filled return, the Pelicans got off to a late start against the Shreveport Sports. John Webb (my stepson, for those who haven’t realized it yet!) started for the Pelicans and went 6.2, allowing 3 runs, 2 [...]

Fairness vs. Fairness

With a hat tip to evangelical outpost, I present this quote from P. J. O’Rourke in the LA Times.

The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin. Observe the Tenth Commandment. The first nine commandments concern theological principles and social law: Thou shalt not make [...]

4 Posts

I’ve decided to start a series of irregular but hopefully frequent posts on the Moderate Christian Blogroll blog for the purpose of trying to increase interaction. You can read the explanation, or see the first entry, 4 Posts on Christian Apologetics.