Margaret Sanger’s Legacy is Not Salvageable, So Let’s Not Try
It’s a little surprising to see any defense of Margaret Sanger on the Christianity Today website.
No matter how you dress it up, Sanger’s racism and eugenics were and are indefensible. Her legacy in Planned Parenthood—the nation’s largest abortion provider—has been notoriously bloody. I just can’t imagine why anyone would offer a defense. Perhaps it makes sense when Planned Parenthood does it, but it makes no sense coming from a pro-life person.... Continue Reading
My Funeral is Back On
For reason of sin, I wanted no funeral. I didn’t want people standing up to testify to what a great guy I was
Two reasons: One, a friend died. The family decided not to have a funeral, nothing to acknowledge him or his death. At first I took it in stride, but then it occurred to me that something was not right with that. In not acknowledging his death, they did not acknowledge his life….The other reason I... Continue Reading
Here’s How the New Christian Left is Twisting the Gospel
Right now cheap grace theology is proliferating around evangelical Bible colleges, seminaries and Christian ministries
Popular liberal evangelical writers and preachers tell young evangelicals that if they accept abortion and same-sex marriage, then the media, academia and Hollywood will finally accept Christians. Out of fear of being falsely dubbed “intolerant” or “uncompassionate,” many young Christians are buying into theological falsehoods. Instead of standing up as a voice for the innocent... Continue Reading
Is the God of the Old Testament a Moral Monster?
An Interview with Dick Belcher
When God brings judgment on people such as Pharaoh or the Canaanites is He being malicious, or does He have some other purpose in view? In most of these situations, God’s first response is not judgment. Even in a case like Sodom and Gomorrah, God comes first to Abraham to reveal His plans to him.... Continue Reading
Does the Faith of Presidents Matter?
Does the faith of presidents truly affect how they govern?
“Most presidents have worshipped consistently to continue their life-long practice, seek divine guidance, set a good example, or to please prospective voters. Almost all presidents have extensively used moral and biblical language to console grieving Americans, provide assurance in times of crisis, celebrate religious holidays, and promote particular policies.” Last month we celebrated the... Continue Reading
Joel Osteen’s “Gospel of Me”
This is the therapeutic message of Joel Osteen, lifted right from his dust jackets
“When we obey God,” Victoria Osteen declares in one show, a smile plastered across her face, “We’re not doing it for God. I mean, that’s one way to look at it. We’re doing it for ourselves, because God takes pleasure when we’re happy. That’s the thing that gives Him the greatest joy. So, I want... Continue Reading
Does Spiritual Formation Seek The Right Kind Of Change?
Not only does the theology of spiritual formation aim at the wrong target, spiritual formation seeks the wrong kind of change.
Spiritual disciplines dangle the promise of making it possible for me to do what I cannot do: make myself acceptable to God. But practices can never do that. That misguided promise makes Spiritual Formation attractive and gives it the “appearance of wisdom.” But changing my outward reality cannot change my sinful nature, and my sinful... Continue Reading
One Family’s Night Flight From ISIS
Now safe in Iraq, an Assyrian family recounts its escape from Islamic militants
Nuri, his wife, and their three children—15-year-old twin boys and an 8-year-old daughter—made their way east along with others, including Nuri’s wife’s brother and his wife. They eventually caught a ride in a pickup truck to Qameshli, a Syrian city near the Iraqi border. (The family asked that their real names not be used for... Continue Reading
Frank Schaeffer Bores Again With I Was a Teenage ‘Rightwinger’ Shtick
Stand by for another tedious chapter in Frank Schaeffer's 'I Was a Teenage Rightwinger'. Coming all too soon at a blog near you. Yawn!
A key part of the Schaeffer shtick is to make sure his audience knows how “important” he was. “You see, only in the Mafia, the British Royal family and big time American religion is a nepotistic rise to power seen as normal. And I was good at it. And I hated it while hypocritically profiting... Continue Reading
SBC Leader: Baptists, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Catholics
A Southern Baptist seminary president says churches are to blame when young people leave the fold to follow another faith tradition.
“When these two boys, identical twins, were asking deep theological questions, who was there to help them?” Mohler asked. “Who was there to guide them? Who was there as an evangelical thinker, apologist, theologian, friend, pastor and guide to help them to understand these questions?” A recent Wall Street Journal story profiling twin brothers who followed separate... Continue Reading
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