I’m sure all of his posts are worth reading, but I thought this post by JP Moreland was particularly interesting (enough for me to want to try this approach out).
How to Detect Answers to Prayer: The Discipline of Journaling
Archive for the ‘Evangelical’ Category
JP Moreland blogging
Sunday, April 29th, 2007Redefining the Trinity?
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006There is some pretty funny commentary by Tom McMahon on what is a pretty ridiculous topic the Presbyterian Church is apparently considering in The Trinity, Updated.
I would appear that they have more than their share of issues at the moment. On a more serious note, read some of Mark Roberts’ commentary about another really poor decision recently. I can’t claim to have ever been a member of a Presbyterian church, but the way things look now it seems like they are looking to join the Episcopalians if detaching themselves complete from mainstream evangelicals.
Well it’s *a* reason
Saturday, June 17th, 2006As a relatively new participant in the whole Father’s Day thing (see the BabyYates blog for more on this), I find some of the rationale behind the day of honoring fatherhood interesting. Melinda at the STR blog (and an article quoted there) had an unique take on a (IMHO) more important idea of
Husband’s Day.
The whole emphasis on loyalty seems like it’s getting at something pretty fundamental to making marriages actually last past the “twitterpated” stage. I thought the movie Jerry Maguire provided a good commentary about Hollywood’s misunderstanding of the marriage relationship when it had Rod Tidwell (he of the “Show me the money” raison d’etre) practically scoff at Jerry for replying simply “loyalty” when asked why he would to marry Dorothy (the Rene Zellweger character). The idea that someone would be motivated to marriage by something other than the ever-popular “follow your heart” methodology apparently is inconceivable to many folks. Personally I actually kind of liked him for that response, although you may not want to take a lot of serious marital direction from that movie in general.
Don’t get me wrong, being head-over-heels in love with someone is one of the best things I’ve ever experienced, but it should in no way be a pre-requisite for being engaged and responsible as a husband and a father. You’d certainly be hard-pressed to find biblical support for that idea, and I think it would be difficult to make a very persuasive extra-biblical moral argument for it as well.
FEMA Fraud
Saturday, February 11th, 2006Mark Roberts has a very thought-provoking take on some of the ridiculous statistics on the fraud perpetrated by “victims” of Hurricane Katrina on the people of the United States as represented by the federal government. The stats are pretty frustrating, but I think he does a good job of pointing out the core problem (hint: it’s not government inefficiency)
FEMA Scandal: The Untold Story
Pat Robertson and Ted Kennedy
Friday, January 13th, 2006Who would have thought these two would have anything in common? John Mark Reynolds explains. This is pretty much in line with my thoughts on Pat a few days back.
It’s all out of context
Friday, January 6th, 2006Wow the amount of quotes out of context in the whole Pat Robertson-Ariel Sharon thing is amazing! Far be it from me to defend Pat Robertson, by I can’t seem to find anywhere that he said “God gave Ariel Sharon a stroke for dividing Israel”. You would think he must have said something like this by looking at the headlines and even reading the MSM articles. It appears what he actually said was: Sharon “…was dividing God’s land and I would say woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the EU (European Union), the United Nations, or the United States of America”.
You can be the judge of whether those are the same. Both sound pretty stupid to me. What’s equally lame is the spin doctored explanation from Robertson’s PR gal: that he was “simply reminding his viewers what the Bible has to say about efforts made to divide the land of Israel.” Apparently the reference ol’ Pat was using here was Joel 3:2, which says: “I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.” I must have missed the part where he talks about punishing Jews for giving away their land.
I guess it’s all about sound bytes these days, but doing that with the Bible is a dangerous thing.
On another note, why is it that Robertson is still presented as a leader of the evangelical community? Is it just because he has a TV show? I really wish people would start quoting this guy or, even better, this guy (c’mon he’s good enough to be on Larry King pretty frequently) when they want a quote from someone representing true evangelical Christians. What would be the fun in that though, when you can get Falwell or Robertson to make some ridiculous quote (or make one sound ridiculous) and get a couple of days of “Ha ha, stupid Christians” stories on the news.