by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 27, 2019 | Brian McLaren, Church Growth Movement, Contemplative Prayer, Culture Driven Church, Deity of Christ, Evangelical Left, Homosexuality, Hyper-charismatic, Jesus Seminar, Kenneth Copeland, Liberal Left, Liberalism, New Apostles and Prophets, Progressives, Word Faith
Could it be that many who like to claim Christianity as their faith can only do so by minimizing God? In Christianity& Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen, Machen spends a fair amount of time addressing how liberal theologians in his day, who were “in search of the...
by Jonathan Miles | Jun 7, 2018 | Free Speech, Gay Marriage, Homosexuality, Liberal Left, Marriage, Masterpiece Bake Shop, Morality, Progressives
Lots of celebration and consternation over the “Narrow ruling” in the Masterpiece Bake Shop case. To be clear, a narrow ruling or narrow decision doesn’t refer to the number of justices. A unanimous decision can be narrow in the legal sense. The...
by Guest Writer | Nov 30, 2017 | Abortion, Adultery, Church History, Fall 2004, Homosexuality, MCOI Journal, Social Justice, Social tyranny, Volume 10
(Originally printed in the Fall 2004 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 10) By Frank York Retired (1999) Illinois College Professor of Sociology Dr. Alvin J. Schmidt, who holds an M. Div. from Concordia Seminary and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska,...
by Jonathan Miles | Aug 31, 2017 | ANTIFA, First Amendment, Free Speech, Gender identity, Homophobic, Homosexuality
I write about free speech a lot; wrote my doctoral dissertation on it. I speak around the country occasionally defending free speech. Mainly I do this because I believe the first amendment protections are the only thing standing between Christians and the tyranny of...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 10, 2017 | Climate Change, Holiness, Holy Living, Homosexuality, Marriage, micro-aggressions, Pedophilia, Political Correctness, Progressives, Sin, Snow Flakes, Transgender
We live in the challenging times of what we might call “moral fluidity.” For nearly two millennia Western culture has been guided by Judeo/Christian moral and ethical values. That doesn’t mean that no one violated them, of course. Every human being has violated them....
by Jonathan Miles | Mar 2, 2017 | Apocalyptic, Christian Life, Christian living, Culture and Society, Homosexuality, Intentional Community, Morality, Pedophilia, Politics, Scripture
I don’t always agree with Doug Wilson at Blog and Mablog, which goes without saying but, of course, must be said in the age of Twitter where guilt by association has risen to high art. Don’t even assume I agree with everything he says in the blog...
