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Thousands Homeless After Hindu-Christian Violence in India
Thousands Homeless After Hindu-Christian Violence in IndiaBy HARI KUMARPublished: August 28, 2008 NEW DELHI — At least 3,000 people, most of them Christians, are living in government-run relief camp...
Anglicanism Lost
Anglicanism Lost(A response to comments at This Blog)Father R,I love Anglicanism, but I could never be an Anglican, because they seem to be extinct. Your analysis of Anglicanism seems to say that you ...
Divorce and the Christian
Divorce and the Christian(In response to an inquiry)You shouldn’t worry about asking. I get questions like this all the time. It’s much more common than you might think. Churches have a very unhea...
On the old churches, and why Protestants are still right.
On the old churches, and why Protestants are still right.(A response to a friend)Well it's a tough one, because those of a Greek orthodox persuasion are very into being Greek, and so the Greek theolog...
The Five points of Calvinism
The Five points of Calvinism.You know the whole ‘5 points’ thing is kind of funny. John Calvin never had five points. While I really think he would have agreed with them, his was mainly an exeget...
A Genocide Against Women
A Genocide Against Women.To be spiritually minded is to realize that we must have the wisdom God gives in the Scriptures, and not think as modern man thinks, that his own finite knowledge is a suffici...
The Emergent Church, Community, and Confusion in the thought of Brian McLaren
The Emergent Church, Community, and Confusion."I don't think the liberals have it right. But I don't think we have it right either. None of us has arrived at orthodoxy." Brian McLaren.What a bizarre m...
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Five.
A Recent Spate of Calvinism. Part Five.Continued from Part Four.“Now since one and the same grace may in one instance be efficacious, and in another inefficacious, it follows that the so-called gra...
Christians crucified by terrorists in Iraq « Christian Theology
http://christiantheology.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/christians-crucified-by-terrorists-in-iraq/To be spiritually minded is to realize that we must have the wisdom God gives in the Scriptures, and not th...
God and Governing Conference
This is an upcoming conference that I'm involved in planning and organizing. I would encourage you to attend if you have the opportunity.All the best,Christopher NeiswongerA Conference on Ethics, Virt...
That uncertain newness
That Uncertain Newness.There is a mood to any age, and this one has its own. On the one hand, it is a temper infatuated with the new, as if newness itself were a virtue by the simple merit of innovati...
New Team Blog
This is a new team blog I'm doing with some other guys. You must go to it right now and link us to your site. It is imperative for the survival of the human race and possibly some other race or two....
Messianic Judaism
Messianic Judaism. (an answer to a question from a friend)Sorry if these answers are a little vague, but as I said, there is not a clearly defined answer here. Messianic Jews don't have an official c...
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Four.
A Recent Spate of Calvinism. Part Four.When you hear somebody that says they are a Calvinist say that man has no freewill, it’s hard to take that seriously. We all know that man has a will. The ques...
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part three.
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Three."Only lest any one should presume so to deny freedom of will, from a desire to excuse sin." Augustine."Of our own we have nothing but sin." Augustine.Calvinism...
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Two.
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Two.Sometimes when people read Aquinas they can get an inflated sense of his theological skill from the fact that they focus on ten percent of his work, being, his fo...
On Religious Experience: Part Two, a response to a friend
On Religious Experience: Part Two, A response to a friend.As to “proof”, it doesn’t seem to be that I am using the word in an erroneous fashion as much as that you are defining the term with an ...