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Lunceford: Fundamentalist Distortion of Scripture Regarding Women’s Roles
My, Georgetown College has some cheeky profs! I have observed through the years that those who use the proof-texting approach and take the texts literally are highly selective in what they take. A seminary classmate of mine related a story … Continue reading
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My Church Isn’t “Manly,” and I Like It That Way
I’m afraid to click on the link at Ben Myers’s Faith and Theology blog for the “MAN CHURCH.” It’s enough for me to know that these people, whoever they are, are trying to create church the way a man expects … Continue reading
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Unbelieving Pastors
Ronnie McBrayer has reproduced a fascinating brief article and interview with Daniel Dennett about pastors who are secretly unbelievers. I have two thoughts. The first has to do with this comment: IDEAS: One theme that emerges in the interviews is … Continue reading
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Liberal Politics ≠ the Gospel
Walter Russell Mead explains why: To mistake an ideology or a social model for the transcendent and always surprising (and irritating!) Kingdom of God is, technically speaking, the sin of idolatry. It is to worship the work of our own … Continue reading
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The Bible ≠ the Gospel
Why do so many people who have an unwavering faith in the Bible do such stupid things with it? That’s not quite the way David Ker puts the question, but he is struggling with how to teach people to do … Continue reading
Hey, Mennonites (and Baptists and Catholics and Pentecostals….), Go to Hell!
Greg Boyd: “I Told Mennonites to ‘Go to Hell’ (and they liked it!).” My kind of preacher.
1 Corinthians 14:34-35 Is an Interpolation
Women should be silent in the churches. for they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as the law also says. If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. for it … Continue reading
Prophecy: Summative or Formative?
Interesting insight from Ken Shenck about the nature of biblical prophecy—and a lot of what passes these days for “speaking prophetically.” There is a psychological dynamic among much of American Christianity that pushes us to want to “call sin sin,” … Continue reading
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On Pastoral Visitation
A lot of church members need to read these words from John Hobbins, and some need to stick them on their refrigerator: But are we doing enough as a church to reach out to the community and to meet the … Continue reading
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