In June of 1982 a group of Christians gathered together in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Their goal was to explore and explain their reasons for believing that Christians ought to be both socially and politically involved. Eventually, a report was published, and embedded in that report is something I think may help us continue our dialog [...]
Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, [...]
A modern disgrace
BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS in SLATE MAGAZINE
In December 1931, George Orwell got himself arrested in the slums of East London in order to find out about conditions “inside,” and then he wrote an essay about the people he met while in detention. One of them was a buyer for a kosher butcher [...]
First observation. People, including Christians, so desperately want heroes that they will turn off rational thought once they decide, for whatever reason, that some person is going to be that hero. Secondly, the Christian community is no different from the non-Christian community when it comes to shallowness, practicing thought by emotion, and sheer unmitigated gullibility.
The [...]
As I read this book, I am reminded of Philip and the Ethiopian.
Acts 8: 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” 27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in [...]
From The Submerging Influence
C. S. Lewis is widely considered one of the most influential Christian thinkers of the last 100 years. While he never claimed to be a theologian, his stature in the Christian pantheon of leading figures is immense. His Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters have become classics and he is quoted in [...]
From fearfullyhuman
From Plane to Soapbox via Taxi
Sitting in my room in a hotel in Entebbe. I lay in bed this morning and watched the sun rise through a bank of cumulus clouds over Lake Victoria before going back to sleep for another hour.
It’s the end of my gruelling three-week assignment and later today I’ll get [...]
What Would Jesus Buy? - The Website
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Paul makes this argument in Romans 2:
25Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised. 26If those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised? 27The one who is not [...]
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