John at Shuck and Jive has some ideas on how to identify a fundamentalist, especially if that’s YOU. I’m thinking his standards are a little tougher than mine, but his are a bit closer to a “dictionary” definition, always provided you locate just the right dictionary.
I’ve been enjoying Rev. John’s blog lately, though he’s off to my left. But it’s a good relief from reading people to my right who annoy me!
David Ker is complaining about modern worship songs (since the 90s), and Peter Kirk has partially taken him to task about it, wondering about the air down in Mozambique and whether it causes David to rant. (Personally I suspect it’s looking at too many hippos, but in non-essentials charity, I say!) David continues with a…
Responding to a quote from Mark Driscoll: I frankly have trouble understanding how a follower of Jesus could find himself unable to worship a guy he could “beat up” when he already crucified him. Read the whole article, Revelation and the Violent “Prize Fighting” Jesus.
Shortly after I separated from the Air Force I was chatting with a gentleman while waiting in line for something or other. On realizing that I was a veteran, and in fact had been somewhere that would qualify me as a veteran of a foreign war, he started a pitch to get me to join…
At church today our pastor (Dr. Wesley Wachob) made a couple of points I’d like to repeat here. They may sound disconnected, but they both derived from the scripture lesson, Matthew 23:1-12. The common theme was “remember” as he tied us as a congregation into the history of the people of God. This was tied into…
Consider Christianity Week is an idea conceived by Elgin Hushbeck, Jr., author of the Consider Christianity Series. Note that I don’t come to this event completely without ulterior motives as I publish Elgin’s books and related study guides (Energion Publications). For me, Consider Christianity Week is an example of the kinds of principles presented in…
Some time back I wrote a post titled Witness without Being a Pest. There are a number of things that make Christians pests when they witness, but I think the most important is when we think witnessing is a separate activity that we “do” as opposed to something that happens when we live. If you…
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Hey Henry! Thanks for the link to my blog and I am glad to have found yours. Like your definition of moderate on your who am I link?
My hunch is that you might NOT be a fundamentalist?
Oh, I’m Henry the Heretic–nuff said?
I can go with about three and a half out of five 🙂
Like your take on things. I found you from Blogrush. You might like my blog as well. We fight the good fight against fundies too.
Rev Shuck has his own blog and this is good. America and free speech are blessings. However, he is beating the liberal drum of anti-fundamentalism again. Good golly, his fellow libs should figure out a way to keep their churches from declining. Maybe they need some fundamentalist to show them how to get more people in church to hear the “Good News”.
I am not a fundamentalist. I survived the experience and moved on. Congregationalism fits more with my theology now. Regardless, I find this war between fundamentalism and liberal theology interesting. One troubling note though. It appears that liberal theologians and secularist are getting into bed together and forming a loose alliance to attack various religious symbols, especially Christian symbols, in the public square. This is from Time Magazine:
“For all their zeal and all their drives, ministers of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. got only 65,147 new communicants in the year ending last March 3131,822 fewer than the year before. The Presbyterian membership list stood at 1,959,923, a decline of 27,368 communicants. All this was reported last week by the church’s Stated Clerk, Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge”.
I find the argument that liberal churches are somehow bad because they are declining in membership a bit odd. I was under the impression that we, as Christians, didn’t think truth was determined by numbers.