December 2011
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In the original Hebrew, the 10th Commandment prohibits taking, not coveting. The biblical Jubilee year is named for an animal’s horn and has nothing to do with jubilation. The pregnant woman in Isaiah 7:14 is never called a virgin. Psalm 23 opens with an image of God’s might and power, not shepherding. And the romantic Song of Solomon offers a surprisingly modern message.
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All four gospels tell us that the message of the Resurrection was given to women to proclaim to men. That leads some of us to believe that is evidence that God just might call a woman to be pastor.
Roger Gilbert, pastor of First Baptist Church of Mount Airy, N.C., explaining why he thinks a Baptist association’s vote to remove a church for calling a woman pastor isn’t what Jesus would do....
…whoever finally gets the Republican nomination will be a deeply flawed candidate. And these flaws won’t be an accident, the result of bad luck regarding who chose to make a run this time around; the fact that the party is committed to demonstrably false beliefs means that only fakers or the befuddled can get through the selection process.
OP-ED COLUMNIST Send in the Clueless PAUL...
“People ask me if I believe in global warming. I tell them, ‘No, I don’t,’ because belief is faith; faith is the evidence of things not seen. Science is evidence of things seen. To have an open mind, we have to use the brains that God gave us to look at the science,” Katharine Hayhoe is a climatologist who teaches at Texas Tech in Lubbock, TX. A rising star among...
This book would say to the modern layman “Don’t exclude yourself from the fellowship of Christ’s followers because of mental difficulties. If you love Christ and are seeking to follow him, take an attitude of Christian Agnosticism to intellectual problems at least for the present…In the meantime, join in with us in trying g to show and spread Christ’s spirit, for...
Unless we can break out of the prison of old-fashioned expressions, creeds and formularies, we shall never be free to find the far more glorious truths which are inherent in the Christian religion.
Leslie Weatherhead, The Christian Agnostic. Permalink | Leave a comment »
Frankly, I often wonder why so many people do go to church. Christianity must have a marvelous inherent power, or the churches would have killed it long ago.
Leslie Weatherhead, The Christian Agnostic
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I am writing for the Christian Agnostic by which I mean a person who is immensely attracted by Christ and who seeks to show his spirit, to meet the challenges, hardships and sorrows of life in the light of that spirit, but who, though he is sure of many Christian truths, feels that he cannot honestly and conscientiously ‘sign on the dotted line’ that he believes certain theological...
Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.
John of Salisbury in the 12th century, from the Minnesotastan Permalink | Leave a comment »...
REAL EYES
REALIZE
REAL LIES
painted on the side of a garage in Seattle. Permalink | Leave a comment »