by Jonathan Miles | May 16, 2013 | Apologetics, Atheism, Church, Creationsim, Culture and Society, Evolution, Theology
Years ago there was a book entitled Listening to Prozac . I don’t want to suggest by my title that I think Atheism is a mental illness that requires medication. I wouldn’t be so arrogant or dismissive as to think those who fundamentally disagree with me...
by Jonathan Miles | Mar 7, 2013 | Christ and the Church, Church History, Culture and Society, Culture Driven Church, Discernment, Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, Liberal Theology, Scripture, Theology
Dear Reader, I was prepared to write this week about a really bad Abortion Argument on Salon.com. But it seems that stupid arguments must alas trump bad arguments. Self-proclaimed “thought leader” Steve McSwain decided to vent his frustration with...
by Pastor G. Richard Fisher | Dec 13, 2012 | Demons, Discernment, Neil T Anderson, Superstition, Theology
(A Brief Review of Rough Road to Freedom: A Memoir by Neil T. Anderson; Monarch Book, 2012, $14.99) Yiddish is a language developed by the Jews in Europe. Yiddish has some interesting sounding words. One of those Yiddish words is the word schmutz. The word schmutz has...
by Don Veinot | Nov 29, 2012 | Abortion, Apologetics, Christ and the Church, Church History, Culture and Society, Economy, Evangelical Left, Homosexuality, Human Rights Violations, Liberal Theology, Marxism, Mormonism, Pedophilia, Politics, Psychology, Theology
I have to admit, this started out to be a very different blog than it ended up. Like many, I was discouraged at the results of the election. Yes, I know that God is in control and uses even government for His purposes but sometimes those purposes are to punish His...
by Sarah Flashing | Nov 24, 2012 | Christ and the Church, Culture and Society, Emerging Church, Fall 2011, MCOI Journal, Postmodernism, Relativism, Theology
(Originally printed in the Fall 2011 Issue of the MCOI Journal) For many years, the current youth generation—“Generation ‘Y’ ” or the “Millennials”—has been the focus of numerous books, articles, and studies. From a Christian perspective, much of the analysis has been...
by Jonathan Miles | Oct 4, 2012 | Christ and the Church, Christian living, Theology
I remember the conversation as if it were yesterday. A friend and I were talking and the subject of God’s judgement came up. Slightly unusual since he is an atheist and I am a Christian, but only slightly because talking with intelligent atheists about God can...