As I scroll through the blogs tagged “Christianity” tonight, many of them are promoting more scripture reading in 2013. Of course, being the sweet and mild pastor’s wife that I am, I clearly favor copious amounts of Bible reading. However, as I look around my immediate Christian world, I see very few of us who…
In response to my post “Be the Church” Keith writes: It seems as if Adam Lanza was a church attendee. So, The Church, “God’s prescriptions for mental health”, was in this case, unable to overcome the effect of Adam’s broken home. I love the adage “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more…
When I first became a Christian, I remember having serious questions about many social issues. Sometimes my especially difficult inquiries were met, not with historical proofs or apologetic reasoning, but with the flustered response “The Bible says it. I believe it. That settles it.” There was a time when that response would satisfy. A time when many…
In this current political climate, gay marriage supporters and Christians often find themselves on opposite sides of the issue. In Facebook discussions or on comment threads especially where you don’t know those with whom you are disagreeing, it can get ugly and personal. I know that in discussions I’ve had, it sometimes feel like we…
Question from a reader: Marriage between one man and many women is very prevalent in the Bible, but these days “Biblical Marriage” is virtually always represented as between one man and one woman. I haven’t gone looking for any research to support this, but I suspect that a comparison of parenting outcomes from polygamist households…
Most of the time when people quote this teaching it’s to say that as a Christian we are not allowed to say that anything is ever wrong. Looking at the context of the verse will give clarification. Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you…
Jesus did not use the term “conservation” but that doesn’t mean that as Christians we have no responsibility to care for the planet. He didn’t talk about anorexia but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t care for our bodies. He doesn’t mention human trafficking but that doesn’t excuse us of responsibility to those sold into…
I was challenged to read The DaVinci Code several years ago. I read it in about 48 hours—it was a great story. But when I put it down, I said to myself “If what this book says is right, my faith is crap. It’s a faith that is divorced from real history and truth. And…
Being a Christian means knowing who Christ really is. Being a Christian means having a relationship with Christ. Being a Christian means following Jesus. It does not mean acting good, having a one-time spiritual experience, “confessing Jesus” while your behavior goes on unchanged, just being “moral,” building your life around one or two verses, repeating…
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