A friend of a friend recently wrote this post, which explains more clearly than I ever have why it’s incorrect — and also undesireable — to think of America as a Christian nation. Brilliantly done! Check it out:
Why American Was Never a Christian Nation from the blog Provocative Christian Living.
Archive for November, 2008
Blogsurfing Find: “Why America Was Never a Christian Nation”
Posted in BlogSurfing Finds, Christianity, Current Events, Faith, Faith Chat, Jesus, Kingdom, Life, Politics, Spirituality, Thoughts on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Quote of the Week 11-10
Posted in Christianity, Faith, Faith Chat, God, Jesus, Life, Quote of the Week, Theology, Thoughts on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Karl Barth in his Church Dogmatics describes the indwelling of the Holy Spirit as “having inner ears for the Word of Christ“.
For musicians this has incredible depth of meaning. “Inner ears” are what makes it possible for us to hear music just by thinking it, without having it written down and without having to sing [...]
The Day of the Lord
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Current Events, Faith, Faith Chat, God, Jesus, Kingdom, Life, Spirituality, Theology, Thoughts on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why would you have the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light, as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him. [...]
Election Eve, and Another Black Eye for Evangelical Christianity
Posted in Christianity, Current Events, Faith, Faith Chat, God, Jesus, Kingdom, Life, Politics, Rant, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, Thoughts on November 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Will this kind of nonsense ever stop?
I’m not endorsing or supporting any Presidential or VP candidate on this blog, but yes, I will vote tomorrow. But tonight I’m more troubled by the blindness, the coldness, the manipulativeness coming from the “Radical Right” who call themselves evangelical Christians.
Evangelical Christianity is best represented by intelligent, good-hearted people [...]
Quote of the Week
Posted in Christianity, Faith, Faith Chat, Jesus, Life, Quote of the Week, Spirituality, Theology, Thoughts on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
20th-century missionary E. Stanley Jones writes:
“[Fifty-six years after conversion] I still want to put my arms around the world and share this with everybody. That is the reason I can’t retire. I hope my dying gasp will be the words of Wesley: “I commend my Savior to you.”
From E. Stanley Jones’ Conversion. Found while studying [...]
The Recovery of the Christian Mind
Posted in Christianity, Current Events, Episcopal/Anglican Stuff, Faith, Faith Chat, God, Life, Literature, Theology on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been reading John Stott’s Between Two Worlds for Homiletics class and the phrase “the recovery of the Christian mind” jumped out at me as I was reading. Stott expresses the thought, and I agree, that the ability to think clearly from a Christian perspective has become a rare and much-needed thing in our world. [...]
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