NIV Bible: Sorry Ladies, You're Still Men
Image via Wikipedia USA Today reports that a new version of the New International Version will hit bookstores in March, 2011. The translation takes into account the criticism that the Committee on...
View ArticleThat Liberal, Low View of Scripture
Image via Wikipedia Allow me to direct your attention to a blog post over at the wonderfully named “Hobo Theology.” Full disclosure: the blogger is my brother-in-law. That influences this response in...
View ArticleThe Infinite Futures of a Fundamentalist Upbringing
Image via Vanity Fair Turns out, I have much more in common with Katy Perry than I’m willing to admit. We both grew up in borderline fundamentalist “born-again” churches, never read any books other...
View ArticleCharting the End of Days
Saturday at six o’clock p.m. Standard Time, an earthquake will occur at the International Date Line, and will spread over the whole world. For the next five months, quakes and fires and suffering will...
View ArticleThe Beautifully Ambiguous Bible
Image via Wikipedia I went to a tiny church school from first to seventh grade. It used the A Beka Book school curriculum, which, although it worked out okay for me, I’ll go on record as saying, was...
View ArticleBeyond biblicism
In The Bible Made Impossible Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith makes an impassioned argument for a move beyond evangelical biblicism and theological liberalism. Biblicism is a package of beliefs...
View ArticleWords Are Not Static, Just Try to Be Right
Illustration from Ludlow's article by Leif Parsons My mother is reading a Marcus Borg book. This could be trouble, but if it is, it’s my fault. I gave it to her. The book is “Putting Away Childish...
View ArticleThe Illusory Promise of Apolitical Theology
Apropos of our ongoing discussion of what religious political engagement should look like amid the culture wars, Conor Williams has made an effort at describing two different faith interacts with...
View ArticleWomen in Combat: Deborah Need Not Apply
(Photo credit: United States Marine Corps Official Page) Last Wednesday, the Pentagon announced its decision to lift the ban on women serving in combat, opening to them over 237,000 jobs in infantry...
View ArticleWhen it Comes to Pop Culture, Evangelicals are a Bunch of Babies
(Photo credit: Fiery-Phoenix) A weird thing happened the other day. As some old friends from college were considering catching a movie together, and emails were flying around in an effort to agree on...
View ArticleI am a Christian in the 21st Century
Icon depicting the First Council of Nicaea. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This week’s DOMA hearings have prompted the Evangelical blogbuddies to gird their loins and defend the ranks of the faithful few;...
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