Category: Criticisms

This type of article always leaves me a bit disoriented for a day or two. Depressed might be to strong a word, but it's close. A friend of mine tells the story of a Hare Krishna that he met once, back in the day, in a...

We had a very interesting discussion this AM at church in our "post-Service discussion group" (not "Sunday School"). The question was "What is Truth and how do we talk about it?" We did the typical Christian thing, which is to...

It's a beautiful fourth of July here in the Pacific Northwest. What better than to sit at my computer, staring occasionally out into my lush yard for inspiration, and write a blog post about the USA. I'm going to click the like...

Christians and our Bible have taken a huge hammering in the last few months. And it's all our own fault. First there was Bell First we had Rob Bell with his short-lived hell controversy. By questioning (or appearing to...

According to Harold Camping and his followers the doomsday schedule goes like this: Sometime before 6 PM on May 21, 2011 all true believers will be taken directly up to heaven, or "raptured". Camping and company seem to think...

I think it's the first time ever that I've purchased a news magazine from the checkout line. But it was irresistible: the front cover of Time Magazine featuring Rob Bell's hellish controversy. For me the most amazing thing was...

I've been waiting to write on this until A) someone lent me a copy of the book or B) I found a good explanation online of what he is actually affirming beneath all the murky water surrounding the "love wins" debacle. I'd like...

Tonight I had dinner in Honduras in the company of three Argentines, one Swiss, a Dane (I almost said Danish) and a Honduran, who all work in various Christian ministries. We got into a very interesting discussion about...

I've been listening to this song on the Christian radio and I just have to say something. It's like a fire in my bones! This is Amy Grant's latest contemporary Christian catchy hit tune and a part of it goes like this: We pour...

HG Wells told the story of a 19th century scientist with a time machine in his famous story The Time Machine. Now the 2002 Christian film Time Changer (recently released on DVD) features a theologian from the same era who uses a...