Fighting For Absolute Truth
My friend Peter Walker made the above video. Peter’s sense of humor, and the fact that he calls out a certain absurdity in the stereotypes of Christianity, absolutely made me laugh. And it got me thinking about all of the theological dialogs I’ve had over the years. So many of those dialogs (and a lot of arguments) were simply my …
A Question To Ponder
Are people inherently good or evil? What say you?
A Question To Ponder
When does someone enter the Kingdom of God? What say you?
A Connection To Father
Scot McKnight shares a story on his blog that I have seen countless times in ministry. He says, One time a student came to my office and rather doggedly and aggressively said, “I don’t believe in God.” I knew the student a bit and I knew the student’s family, and I knew enough about the situation to say something that …
A Question to Ponder
When does someone “become” a child of God? What say you?
Radical Uncertainty
Two videos hit me this week dealing with the same principle of radical uncertainty. The first is a comedic interview between Stephen Colbert and Andy Schlafly, who is creating Conservapedia. Andy is a hoot to watch but Stephen throws out a line that captured my attention. He said, “Who are these people who are the experts because I want to …
Straight From The Horses Mouth
“The irony is that even within Christian churches, we’re already post-denominational. Christian churches are already seeing that the issues that defined the denominations are mostly dead issues for people today. The connections are across denominations. Amazing movement called the emerging church. Not only says, ‘to hell with denominations but to hell with church building, traditions pretty much as a whole. …
Why New Atheism Thrives
A few months ago I was in Borders and picked up a copy of Christopher Hitchens God is Not Great. I thumbed through it for about an hour digesting portions of it. And I liked it. Yep. Let me explain. There’s a reason why the New Atheism is thriving. It’s not because of what Hitchens, Dawkins, or Harris have written. …
The Ilustion Of Stuff
I really wonder how much of our stuff is just an illusion that sates us into thinking we have it all together. Last night I was watching television and one of the pinnacle 80’s movies came on. The graphic, F-work laden Scarface. (My friend once counted the F words and there are 365.) I couldn’t help but get drawn into …
Not Cut Out For Religion
This was insightful and deeply creative from Jude Simpson.It explores the nature of following Jesus and our insipid desire to dumb it down. I ask you, what’s the answer, and you just ask me questions, and I’m like, “hello, I thought you were God?” Can’t I just download you, pay-as-I-go to decode you – a quick fix listen on my …
