Today, most Americans associate unbelief with the old-boys network of New Atheists, but there is a new generation of unbelievers emerging, some of them women and most of them far friendlier than Hitchens and his ilk. Although the arguments of angry men gave this movement birth, it could be the stories of women that allow [...]

One of the tensions of the Christian faith is that it is both outwardly and inwardly focused. We look to God, and in his perfection and power we draw him into our fragile selves. His presence purifies ours. Jesus the great God Man is both our model and our champion. So when we wish to [...]

If you’re a techie like me, perhaps this is the kind of meditation we should be doing:

I want to make a few comments about Christian Zen mostly for my own sake so that I can process the topic. But I’d also like to hear from those of you who read this blog and have ideas [...]

Some of my Christian friends are getting into Zen these days and so I thought I might offer a statistical method for deciding who’s cooler: Buddha or Jesus.

Jesus

Buddha
 

1 Commandment
+1
8 fold path
+8

Nice hair
+1
Bald
-1

followers chant meaningless songs
-10
ditto
-10

174,000,000 Google results
+1
21,600,000 Google results
-1

0

0

Rose from the dead
+5
Died of bad cooking
-1

+1

-1

Final score:
-1
 
-6

Jesus wins.
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Although I am at my core a Creationist, my role in our homeschool is to be the resident skeptic. My ears perked up when from the other room I heard young voices saying, “Science can’t PROVE anything.” What kind of twaddle is this? I came growling into the room demanding to know what sort of [...]

HT: Christianity Today Liveblog

CatholicVote.com produced a commercial to be aired during the Super Bowl using Obama’s life story as a rhetorical chip in the high stakes game of fighting for the rights of the unborn.
You can read the story at the Washington Post here: NBC nixes pro-life ad featuring Obama.
Below the fold is the [...]

Did you catch it?
Doctor Lowery began his prayer of benediction quoting these words:

God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet [...]

HT: Christianity Today
As a new President comes in who will certainly not seek to outlaw abortion or restrict it in any way, what should our response be? The political activism of Focus on the Family (FOTF) forms a useful case study. The variety of activities that this organization is involved in is huge. They lobby [...]

 
My recent post God loves divorce elicited less responses than I hoped. I had hoped to hear some of my fellow bloggers give a hearty “amen.” But the response was strangely muted. The few comments that were left were funny, poetic and touching. And I received two private messages from formerly abused wives who have [...]

““I hate divorce,” says the Lord God of Israel, “and the one who is guilty of violence,” says the Lord who rules over all. “Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful.” (Malachi 2:16, NET)

Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater Had a wife and couldn’t keep her. Put [...]

Update: This post mentioned at Digg: Why Right Wing Christians look so stupid

The dust has settled and the earnest sister who believed that Mike Huckabee would score a divine victory on Tuesday has now switched her sights to the book of Revelation and Obama’s landslide as definitive evidence of the beginnings of the Great Tribulation.
On [...]

Last night while channel surfing I stumbled on Dancing with the Stars. It was my first opportunity to watch this show that I have heard so much about. I lasted five minutes and it was so banal that I can’t even bring myself to make fun of it. But of far more interest as [...]