Repelling Young People

Byhenry February 20, 2012

“So, in a spirit of Christian solidarity, I decided to help these churches expel young people once and for all.” This is too good! Read the rest.

Bible Books | Bible Passages | Christianity

Choosing Bible Reading
Byhenry June 15, 2009
I was reading an excellent post by Martin LaBar (Sun and Shield) today about our reading choices. He’s commenting on a study that shows that we tend to select reading that confirms our already existing views. Now I suspect there’s nothing terribly surprising about that. At least most of us assume that other people only…
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Academic Freedom | Creation and Evolution | Education | Religion | Science

La Sierra Board Makes a Statement
Byhenry February 12, 2010
I would say it’s a statement on creation and evolution, but I’m not quite sure what it is. Earlier (Seventh-day Adventist Education and Evolution) I wrote about the concerns about the teaching of evolution in biology classes at La Sierra University, a Seventh-Day Adventist school in California. (I was raised in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church…
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Your Church’s Heart
Byhenry September 19, 2005
I heard an outstanding sermon yesterday at Gonzalez United Methodist Church. I really enjoy the opportunity to report positive things from churches that I visit. This one is only about five minutes from my home. The key quote that I wrote down in my bulletin was this: The heart of any church is seen in…
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Link: Roger Olson – The Most Pernicious Heresy in American Christianity
Byhenry February 9, 2014
This is very much worth reading.
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A Morbid and Boring Christianity
Byhenry March 6, 2019
The quote above comes from chapter 1 of S. J. Hill’s book, What’s God Really Like?, and I’d like to spend some time with this, looking at it from different angles. The first angle is one of worship. I was in a church committee meeting some years back where a room full of people were…
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The Danger of Making Things Tougher
Byhenry May 16, 2019
I don’t spend a great deal of time talking about it, but following my MA in Biblical and cognate languages, I took one quarter in a MA in Theoretical Linguistics program. I had a full ride fellowship with a stipend, but after one quarter I resigned the fellowship and headed for more interesting places and…
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