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Christian Carnival Plug
ByhenryIt’s time to start thinking about submitting for the next Christian Carnival which will be hosted at Crossroads. The submission form is at http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_1551.html. Submissions are due Tuesday night by midnight each week. The upcoming hosting schedule is at Parableman.
Religious Doctrine Trumping Science
ByhenryAccording to this story on MSNBC.com, Archbishop Francisco Chimoio claims that two European nations are trying to kill off Africans by providing condoms that are already infected with the virus: “I know of two countries in Europe who are making condoms with (the) virus on purpose, they want to finish with African people as part…
Books | Christianity | WorshipA Morbid and Boring Christianity
ByhenryThe 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…
Perspectives on Paul: Date and Authorship of the Epistles
ByhenryI will review how date and authorship is determined (or not) and how that relates to the way we will answer the question of Paul’s gospel.
Gender Roles as Essential
ByhenryPeter Kirk has written an excellent post about the essentials of the Christian faith. I’ll let you go to his blog for the many references he has used in his discussion, and the reason for this post at this moment. My reason for commenting on it is simply that Peter has highlighted a number of…
Fear, Beliefs, and Questioning
ByhenryI’ve often said that I think people who become angry when their beliefs questioned are actually less confident of those beliefs, rather than more so. But that’s a pretty broad and inadequate statement, I think. I was discussing this with my wife recently, and we were wondering why neither of us get annoyed with people…