Speaking of God’s Judgment
The “Rebirth Tour” we took last week in New Orleans was a moving experience. No description of the destruction that Katrina brought to the Ninth Ward can prepare one for actually seeing it up close. In our case, the experience was greatly enhanced by an extremely knowledgeable and articulate guide, Raymond Poret, whose commentary was […]
“No Problem?”
A while back William Safire, in his “On Language” column in the New York Times magazine, commented on the shift from “You’re...
A Final Word (from me at least) on Belhar
Some of my friends in at least three Reformed/Presbyterian denominations are upset with me because of previous my blog postings on the Belhar Confession....
Church Property Disputes
Recently I was talking with a friend who is a part of a “breakaway” Anglican congregation whose members are in a property...
Thoughts about Hell
Jackie Stone is very angry at Bernie Madoff, and I don’t blame her. She and her whole extended family—parents, aunts and uncles,...
Animal Rights
There is a campaign underway in Vienna, Austria to declare Hiasl, a 26-year-old male chimpanzee, a “person,” with various accompanying legal rights....
A Vatican Investigation
The Vatican is investigating communities of nuns in America. Apparently the powers-that-be in Rome are convinced that many women in religious orders have gone...
Multifaceted Witnessing
In my recent blog posting on the “golf bag” image of atonement theory, I thought I was clearly defending the essential nature of substitution....
Being “Nice” to Catholics
Back in 1994 I joined a number of other evangelicals in endorsing a document called “Evangelicals and Catholics Together.” It was a...
“Gratuitous” Praying
Someone recently talked about what are seen these days as the failures of the kind of liberation theology that got much attention...
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