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Sep 14, 2010, 2:46 am
Apparently the Old Testament scholar Gerhard von Rad's reading of Deuteronomy bordered on eisegesis rather than sound exegesis: In his hands, Deuteronomy became not a law book demanding obedience, but rather a collection of sermons pervaded with a spiritual, even a "'protestantische' Atmosph�re."4... Comment - Like
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Sep 14, 2010, 2:20 am
Several thoughts from around the web:
The UCC on becoming a Just Peace Church: The Just Peace Church vision is a hallmark of United Church of Christ theological identity.
For nearly two decades, the Just Peace Church program has been a grassroots movement of UCC congregations committed to corporate... Comment - Like
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Sep 14, 2010, 2:08 am
Apparently the Baptist blogosphere has been a-buzz about the proposed revisions of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina's “foundational statements." Bruce Prescott weighs in: Cooperative Baptists in North Carolina are revising their “foundational statements” to delete tradition... Comment - Like
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Sep 14, 2010, 2:02 am
The Piety That Lies Between: A Progressive Christian Perspective: A Recent RD Article, and Some Further Thoughts on Qur'an Burning Comment - Like
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Sep 14, 2010, 2:00 am
Grace and Truth to You - Wade Burleson: KOKH FOX 25 :: Special Reports - Pastor strip club investigation Comment - Like
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Sep 9, 2010, 2:55 am
Recently I just read about an interesting Japanese Christian reformer Toyohiko Kagawa who always seemed to buck the system as he was always getting arrested for critiquing the Japanese State in the same way the Confessing Church did the Nazi Church. One of the most courageous incidents which he was ... Comment - Like
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Aug 31, 2010, 5:25 pm
Here is something we don't hear about often when we hear about Islam in the media: As early as the late Ming dynasty (around the 17th century), the faithful had set up female Muslim schools around the country. These turned into female mosques operated by women imams in late Qing dynasty (around the ... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2010, 2:09 pm
The Church as Contrast-Society:“The idea of church as contrast-society does not mean contradiction to the rest of society for the sake of contradiction. Still less does the church as contrast-society mean despising the rest of society due to elitist thought. The only thing meant is contrast on beh... Comment - Like
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Aug 16, 2010, 3:28 pm
Shawn Warnsley has an excellent posting over at his blog entitled "Everything is Theology." Here is the list of reasons he gives for why theology is important:
So, what’s so great about theology? I’ll ditch the research paper format in favor of the homily, and let you have it in three parts lik... Comment - Like
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Aug 15, 2010, 3:48 am
Several thoughts on Christian non-violence and pacifism:
Complete non-violence is a religious teaching, not a political one. I am not a pacifist. But a Christian grappling with politics will nonetheless, I think, seek a system where violence is minimized, and a free space is given for faithful non-v... Comment - Like
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Aug 11, 2010, 3:14 pm
(Aug. 11) -- For centuries, an astronomy observatory in Greenwich, London -- the namesake of Greenwich Mean Time -- has been the reference point for lines of longitude, ships' navigation on the world's seas and the time zones used today.
But Saudi Arabia wants to change that. It's building what it ... Comment - Like
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Aug 9, 2010, 10:23 pm
...Whoever killed a human being should be looked upon as though he had killed all mankind; and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole of mankind...(Surat Al-Mā'idah (The Table Spread) - سورة المائدة).
The cold-blooded murder of 10 medical aid workers --... Comment - Like
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Jul 29, 2010, 9:28 pm
No Peace for the Wicked: Northern Protestants and the American Civil War examines Northern Protestants' religious worldview, their motivations for fighting, and why the most religious generation in U.S. history fought America's bloodiest war. In the spring of 1861, young men throughout the Northern ... Comment - Like
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Jul 29, 2010, 2:49 pm
Moderate/Liberal Baptists are not without their problems of using the Pulpit to wield political influence over congregations and individual believers as this recent Associated Baptist Press article demonstrates. Quote:Carter credited Allen's help in an address to about 260 guests at a Georgia event ... Comment - Like
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Jul 29, 2010, 2:36 pm
Here's an interesting article critique of some of the major Atonement Theories. Excerpt: When systematic theologians get their hands on such questions, they utter
big words. The big word here is Atonement. How should we understand the
atoning work of Jesus Christ? In the theological brief that follo... Comment - Like
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Jul 25, 2010, 9:30 pm
Progressive Muslims have produced a considerable body of liberal thoughts within Islam[1][2] (الإسلام التقدمي or "progressive Islam"; but some consider progressive Islam and liberal Islam as two distinct movements, and a more liberal approach of a group that even questions the authorit... Comment - Like
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Jul 25, 2010, 9:23 pm
NEITHER SECULAR NOR THEOCRATIC STATE DICTATORSHIP!
In a free society without the state, neither the secular nor the religious ideology can govern. Because the people have destroyed the armed state and began to govern themselves. In this society believers live according to their beliefs and non-beli... Comment - Like
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Jul 17, 2010, 4:07 am
10. A man’s place is in the army.
9. For men who have children, their duties might distract them from the responsibilities of being a parent.
8. Their physical build indicates that men are more suited to tasks such as chopping down trees and wrestling mountain lions. It would be “unnatural” fo... Comment - Like
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Jul 14, 2010, 4:46 pm
Do we really get Romans? A little Badiou and Žižek can help.
It's been said that reformations and revolutions in Christianity begin with a re-reading of Romans.
That is certainly true of the Protestant Reformation with Luther's epoch-shaking insight into the meaning of the phrase "the righteousnes... Comment - Like
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Jul 14, 2010, 4:06 pm
From The Radical Reformation By Michael G. Baylor pg. 206:
But if an authority is childish or foolish, indeed even unfit to rule, it is always good to get rid of him and accept another ruler. This is good because God has often punished a whole land on account of an evil authority. But if that remova... Comment - Like
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Apr 3, 2010, 6:01 pm
Leonard Cohen Story Of Issac: You who build these altars now
to sacrifice these children,
you must not do it anymore.
A scheme is not a vision
and you never have been tempted
by a demon or a god.
You who stand above them now,
your hatchets blunt and bloody,
you were not there before,
when I... Comment - Like
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Apr 3, 2010, 12:23 pm
Christus Victor and Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ:
Last night Jana and I watched Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. We had seen the film when it first came out. And as you know, there was a lot of conversation swirling around the movie's release. So it was hard then to wat... Comment - Like
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Apr 3, 2010, 3:14 am
The Atonement Wars rage on in a blog post from last month of Ken Silva's on Al Mohler. It seems that Ken Silva and Al Mohler would divide the church over their pet theory of the Atonement: The Penal Substitution theory of the Atonement. (Yeah you heard me right Ken, I just called the Penal Subst... Comment - Like
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Apr 3, 2010, 2:48 am
Drew Tatusko on Good Friday: the triumphal entry turned into a blood-thirsty mob
Good Friday is evil. There is nothing "good" about it. After all what do Christians say in their confessions about the crucifixion? This is what Protestants all over will say on Esater Sunday about the crucifixion as a... Comment - Like
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Apr 3, 2010, 1:28 am
The recent special issue of US News & World Report titled “Secrets of Christianity” has an article on the Gospel of Judas which argues this case. The article in question is entitled Judas Agonistes: An Old Text Claims Jesus Chose His Most Beloved Disciple To Betray Him and is an interesting scho... Comment - Like
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Mar 31, 2010, 11:48 pm
A more than 95-year-old church in Atlanta Georgia is about to be ousted from the Southern Baptist Convention because they have a woman pastor on staff. This is nothing new as it is regular Southern Baptist policy now since The Baptist Faith and Message (2000 version) unabashedly states: VI. The Chur... Comment - Like
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Mar 31, 2010, 11:39 pm
Wade Burleson ponders this question in a recent post Grace and Truth to You: Jesus Pronounces Eight Woes on the Southern Baptist Convention (Matthew 23): It's easy to preach texts when we think Jesus is talking about others in the abstract. It's not near as easy to preach texts when we belie... Comment - Like
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Mar 31, 2010, 1:14 am
Jesus as Victor:
The war is at an end – even though here and there troops are still shooting, because they have not heard anything yet about the capitulation. The game is won, even though the player can still play a few further moves. Actually he is already mated. The clock has run down, even tho... Comment - Like
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Mar 30, 2010, 2:56 pm
Resuming my Romans 13 series on a tip from Dr. McGrath---here are some thoughts on the Communists' use of Romans 13:
First off communist states developed differently from theocratic states as atheism seemed to have been a larger underlying principle of communism. This is not to say that there w... Comment - Like
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Mar 29, 2010, 6:05 pm
Tim Rogers of SBC Today waxes eloquent about the SBC's possible movement toward a return to the Social Gospel. Here is an excerpt from that post: Before I articulate my thesis I want our readers to understand a couple of things. First, I am not against doing social ministry. I believe that eve... Comment - Like
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Mar 24, 2010, 11:33 pm
March 24, 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the martyr-ship of Archbishop Oscar Romero who was assassinated while giving Mass on March 24, 1980. Romero: As an archbishop who witnessed ongoing violations of human rights, Romero initiated and gave his status to a group which spoke out on behalf of t... Comment - Like
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Mar 17, 2010, 12:32 pm
This year there is a heavier emphasis on Social Justice issues. We should have invited Glenn Beck, Todd Friel and John MacArthur to come knowing they wouldn't accept the invitation...haha.
Anyways it should be fun as this year's keynote speaker is Cecil Sherman who was the face of Moderate ... Comment - Like
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Mar 16, 2010, 3:41 pm
John 18:36- Jesus answered, "My kingship is not of this world; if my kingship were of this world, my servants would fight, that I might not be handed over to the Jews; but my kingship is not from the world." (RSV).
Recently John Armstrong blogged on Christian conscientious objection to war---here&#... Comment - Like
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Mar 16, 2010, 12:18 pm
Calvin the social justice advocate: Calvin was also a strong promoter of social justice—the idea of bringing one’s faith to bear on the inequities in the world.
Calvin on who our neighbors are: “We cannot but behold our own face as it were in a glass in the person that is poor and despised . ... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2010, 11:05 pm
Jim Wallis invited Glenn Beck to engage in civil dialogue about the issue of social justice. Here is Beck's threatening response to Wallis: "So Jim, I just wanted to pass this on to you. In my time I will respond — my time, well, kind of like God’s time, might be a day, might be a week to yo... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2010, 10:00 pm
Henry Neufeld quoting from David Black Online: *True patriotism is love of country, not love of government. Neo-patriotism is mindless worship of the state.
*True patriots refuse to honor government above God. Neo-patriots gladly deify government.
*True patriots understand loyalty as adherence to ... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2010, 9:05 pm
Sex scandals have rocked Protestant churches as well. Sin and "satanic" influence are all over the board. Here are some Protestant sex scandals:
This one comes from my local paper: A Leland pastor facing child sex charges recently sent a friend request to his alleged victim on the online social net... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2010, 2:08 pm
The Chief Exorcist of The Vatican says that Satan is in the Vatican. David Knowles reports:(March 10) -- The Rev. Gabriele Amorth, the man who has served as the Vatican's chief exorcist for 25 years, says the signs are there: The devil has infiltrated St. Peter's.
Specifically, Amorth cite... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2010, 1:20 am
Aaron Rathburn has an interesting post (dated March 14, 2009) on biblical inerrancy and it's connection to the Enlightenment. Here's a quote from that post:
What if a supremely powerful God wanted to reveal himself with a text? Can we give him the freedom to do it how he wants, and not have... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2010, 12:44 am
Nicole Winfield reports:
VATICAN CITY -The Vatican on Sunday denied that its celibacy requirement for priests was the root cause of the clerical sex abuse scandal convulsing the church in Europe and again defended the pope's handling of the crisis.
Suggestions that the celibacy rule was in part ... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2010, 12:33 am
Another "Jihad Jane" found: (Mar. 14) -- The mother of a second American woman arrested in a terror probe says she's worried her daughter is raising her 6-year-old son on the tenets of terrorism.
Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, a nursing student from Colorado, was arrested in Ireland on Tuesday in co... Comment - Like
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