Category: Cultural Issues
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Heaven is for Real… But What About Near-Death Experience Claims?
Debuting this weekend in theaters across the USA is a heart tugging film, Heaven is For Real. Based on the book of the same title, the story is about a young boy who ostensibly died and revived. In between his death and his resuscitation he made a brief stop-over in heaven. At least that’s the…
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Myopic World Vision
I was quite disappointed yesterday by World Vision president Richard Stearns’ announcement that the mamouth mercy ministry “will no longer require its more than 1,100 employees to restrict their sexual activity to marriage between one man and one woman”. While I do not agree with the decision World Vision to cave on the issue of marriage, it…
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6 Types of Athiests
Can an atheist qualify as a “minister of the gospel”? Oxymoronic as it may be, this is apparently fodder for discussion, at least in the U.S. courts. In what seems a peculiar story in the news recently, both Forbes and Christianity Today report that there is a case being made to include athiest leaders under the…
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Wings
This video, shared with me by my colleague Camper Mundy, reflects a sad commentary about the shallow consumerism of our society.
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6 Tips for God’s People in Response to a Culture Changed by Court Decree
While I do not want to become one of those guys who perpetually toots out only one tune, and I certainly do not want to make gay marriage or homosexuality the priamary notes of that tune, I do want to follow up yesterdays post with another reflecting on appropriate responses to the Supreme Court rulings yesterday. …
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Prop 8, DOMA, and the Unchanging God
In light of the two U.S. Supreme Court decisions today, I was reminded of something my friend Mike Milton wrote that is pertinent to the issues related to these rulings. Here is what Mike wrote: When the rats begin to scramble on board the ship, it is a sure sign that the boat is sinking.…
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Cultural Argument Against Gay Marriage
by Randy Hicks Not many years ago it was unutterable, except perhaps as a schoolyard can-you-top-this, or as urban legend. Yet it is one of the most sensational issues of our time, and an almost-impossible topic to avoid. And, from what I’m hearing, it’s not always easy for people like you and me to articulate…
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Why I Won’t Forgive Lance Armstrong
I have no inclination to forgive Lance Armstrong. I feel no need to. Armstrong, the infamous cyclist who has now been stripped of several Tour de France victories, an Olympic medal, and has had a host of other indignities hoisted upon his head, has finally confessed to doping in order to enhance his performance. And…
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Advancing Progressively Backwards
T.S. Eliot penned a penetrating poetic analysis of our cultural plight: It seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for other gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before that men both deny gods…
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Same-Sex Marriage: Some Suggested Reads
Ever since President Barrack Obama mad his announcement about the Great Reversal, and his renewed support of Gay Marriage there has been no lack of opinions posted… well, pretty much everywhere. I considered writing something up, but other pressing matters left me without the time to formulate words to express my opinions. But I did…
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Christians & Politics: Faith-filled or Faith Fooled?
In case you have been sleeping like Rip Van Winkle, this is a Presidential Election year in the USA. Faith will be declared, inspected, invoked, and provoked from all sides over these next few months. Some will offer opinions from positions of knowledge, while others will offer authoritative sounding opinions from positions of functional ignorance. …
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Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics – An Interview
I am not a fan of Diane Rehm, by any measure. Not only do I find her views unpalatable, her voice grates my ears. But as I was driving to an appointment today I clicked the NPR preset on my JEEP radio and in the matter of seconds had my attention arrested by the discussion…
