Author: BrianD

  Source: Christian Nightmares         Source: nakedpastor More Christian pastoral reaction to the Obama inauguration. “Is the Internet killing religion?” “Blogging can be doing if it is done well.”   “Giglio’s...

Do Brian McLaren and Mark Driscoll both have a legitimate claim to be an “evangelical?” “I shook my fist, I screamed in a pillow, I pounded the bed. I wept uncontrollably and let myself...

“Becky” (HT) “…the hope that you and I have of being in a conscious state of existence with Christ at the moment of death is strangely absent among Old Testament believers.” Rebecca’s story about...

Happy 2013! Dental assistant fired for “irresistable attraction” (HT) “If the young and restless would-be Calvinists read much in the history of Calvinism they would know that failure and defeat is par for the...

“IT hasn’t been a good year for evangelicals. I should know. I’m one of them.” (HT Becky Garrison and Owen Strachan) “You see, that’s exactly what happens when you dismiss the terrifying texts of...

“Which is why, right now, amid the pain, confusion, and heartbreak that our country is feeling and processing, we (as in America’s evangelical churches) should be asking lots of questions. And we should be...

“Here is one reason you must be called to pastoral ministry: the people you love will not love you back—at least some of them will not love you back.“ “The God and the Jesus...

Tomb of Jonah discovered? (HT: AV) “This invitation to deception is not true or right or good. But it is very popular among evangelical Christians desperate for some way to at least briefly feel...

“A couple got married yesterday with their terminally ill son as best man.” (HT) “And I can yell it all I want, but God won’t damn this season–he’ll be in it.” (HT) “For one...

1. (HT) 2. (HT) 3. (HT) 4. Tony Jones on how the religious voted last Tuesday. 5. “Vatican II it wasn’t, but the meeting of the two Atlanta ministers on the dais of First...