Sid sent me a link to the following quote a while back:
“In the absence of a secular authority, would Christians revert to burning astronomers, executing heretics and persecuting their own members?”
To which I’d say that if memory and research serves, we likely did a few of these with the blessing of a secular authority, especially [...]

This is a pretty cool snapshot of the words I’ve used in my blog posts lately:

Since I don’t have the $$$ to get you all what you deserve for Christmas I figured I’d clue you in to a few podcasts I like to listen to:
Dead Mech – Zombies are all the rage these days. You can find them in offices, Jane Austen novels, and now, with this podcast novel [...]

It seems that being politically incorrect is a badge of pride for some folks. That’s certainly nothing new, after all Bill Maher had a talk show by that name in the nineties. It’s a reaction to perceived political correctness, which by some accounts is a form of cultural Marxism and by others is [...]

Karl Barth (by all accounts a theologian I’d get along famously with), said this:
The Gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question-mark against all truths. The Gospel is not the door but the hinge. The man who apprehends its meaning is removed from all strife, because he is engaged in [...]

What is morality? According to my tweet peeps here are three working definitions.
jramboz: A sense of what is right and wrong. Now, how you define “right” and “wrong” is where it gets tricky.
sidfaiwu: RE morality: 1st attempt at a definition for me: a system of principles aimed as separating right from wrong.
Rasplundjr: Morality [...]

This is a pretty cool rendition, especially if it is (as I suspect) one of those ones where the “band” is strictly/mostly a Youtube affair. Everyone makes their audio/video and one person cuts them together. Ain’t the internet grand when it produces cool stuff?

ht to The Thinklings

Never one to shy away from crossing blades with those I disagree with or expose myself to alternate ideas, I have begun listening to the Redshift podcast put on by Kij and Aetherswift (great names!). They are fellow members of My Life Ministries a diverse group of Christian podcasts/blogs. And allow me to [...]

Okay so I’ve been thinking on this “War on Christmas” thing. I posted my thoughts on the Xmas debacle, but this is a little different.
I think it would be awful if this group came in and stole our holiday. We’ve been doing it for hundreds of years at least. It’s part of [...]

I’d love to have a single book that explained how God brought the universe into being…
I’d love a book that told us everything about the nature of the soul…
I’d love to be able to pick something up, read it, and know all there is to know about God…
The Bible, perhaps sadly, perhaps not, is not [...]