FAQs on Christianity
Frank J. Fleming has posted a tongue-in-cheek set of FAQs on Christianity for today’s secularists who have no clue about this scary new religion. A sample: How long have Christians been around? While...
View ArticleLutherans in exile
Carl Trueman argues that Christianity is going into a kind of cultural exile, and he tries to make the case that the church tradition best equipped to endure what awaits us is Reformed theology. Rod...
View ArticleIs Christianity morally equivalent to radical Islam?
At the National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama asserted the moral equivalence of Christianity and radical Islam. Read what he said after the jump and consider: Though Christianity too has violence...
View ArticleBeing Christian without believing in God
In Judaism, it’s fairly common to hear, “I’m an atheist, but I’m culturally Jewish.” So why can’t a person be an atheist but culturally Christian? It turns out that some people like going to...
View ArticleWill Islam become the world’s largest religion?
A new study says that Islam will pass Christianity as the world’s largest religion by 2070. The report says that in 2050, Muslims will make up 10% of the European population. But they will number only...
View ArticleWhen Christ’s Work Comes Together “For Us”
Our new granddaughter, Hannah Grace Hensley, was baptized on Palm Sunday. Now comes Holy Week. Christmas celebrates the Incarnation, God becoming a human being. But this week and the events it...
View ArticleGood Advice vs. Good News
The essence of Christianity is not good advice, but good news. And there is a big difference. This was the theme of Pastor Josh Pfeiffer’s wonderful Easter Sermon at Bethlehem Lutheran Church here in...
View ArticleFaith + Reason, Logos and Logic
Faith and reason need each other. Faith without reason can degenerate into superstition and fanaticism. Reason without faith can degenerate into tyranny and meaninglessness. Christianity has solved...
View ArticleThe “Fictionalist” Approach to Religion
A rabbi refutes the notion that one can be Jewish without believing in God, that performing the rituals and following the ethics is all that counts. That is an example of "fictionalism," in which...
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