Once upon a time, Martin Luther divided the Bible in half. There was gospel. And there was law. If I may employ his taxonomy without endorsing its validity: the editors of Christianity Today asked a bunch of evangelical leaders about the gospel response to the judge’s overturning of Prop 8, and what they got instead [...]
This month’s Christianity Today has a very good little article by Rob Moll on the place of the great doubters in his own journey toward faith. Moll recounts the importance of Albert Camus in his own rediscovery of faith. An in telling the story he reflects on the importance of doubt. He quotes Timothy Larsen [...]
In May, I was in New York listening to a bunch of folks at Redeemer Presbyterian Church talk through the intersection of their faith, their “secular” work, and theological education. At one point in the discussion, a person suggested that maybe what self-sacrificial love looks like in this transient world of ours is committing oneself [...]
Before I digressed, I was talking about “Sports Fanatics: How Christians have succumbed to the sports culture–and what might be done about it” from the latest Christianity Today. The article makes some very good points about the dilemmas posed by professional sports. Of course, none of the data or incidents pointed up in the article [...]
Last week’s conversation about Ultimate Fighting and the gospel came as an interesting prelude to a few other things that went down this weekend: (1) I got to Christianity Today’s February cover story, “Sports Fanatics: How Christians have succumbed to the sports culture–and what might be done about it“; (2) this was, of course, Super [...]
