Linkathon!
600 Methodists file church complaint against Jeff Sessions…
Three things to remember if you’re struggling with a porn addiction…
Roger Olson asks if the evangelical church of his youth is gone…
Universalism and the devils redemption…
Canada forbids start of christian law school because of LGBTQ stance…
Christian persecuting Christian…
What women need most from brothers in Christ…
Let go of buildings or face church extinction…
Is your ministry headquarters trivial?
Some of J.D.Greer’s congregation didn’t know they were a Southern Baptist church…
Mothers have always crossed boundaries to save their kids…
“You can gauge the power of an institution by the number of people lined up to beg for mercy at its door. The longer the line, the more powerful the institution, the more powerful the institution, the more preoccupied it becomes with self-preservation. Laws, traditions, and litmus tests proliferate. These can shield from very real threats, but they are also used to insulate against change, the different, the low and deserving. The world’s great religions and countries have always guarded their thresholds against the people pressing into them seeking their portion of grace.”
What churches get wrong about sexual abuse…
Community in the worn and used…
Latimer and Ridley are forgotten…
The world doesn’t need extraordinary fathers…
Why anxiety has so much power over us…
Big thanks to EricL for the link help…support him at top right…
It is not unusual that folks don’t realize their mega SBC is actually SBC. I had a boss in the 80s who was an elder at Saddleback who didn’t know. He argued with me for 18 holes of golf that Saddleback was not.
The days before the internet were tough 🙂
@1 – That is true. The move for the last 20 years among the church growth folks has been away from denominational branding of any kind. J.D.s members must be sort of…not paying attention though. He tied in the election for SBC pres two years ago 🙂
The interview about Christian universalism was really good. That’s the problem with my pastor–more than just wanting to perform gay marriage, he’s a quasi-closeted universalist. It is probably going to cause a lot of damage and upheaval to the church and individual congregants.
Why does a law school have to state moral positions before opening? I thought a law school deals with law.
Still it signals what we already know. You cannot practice your Christian faith if your faith contradicts a law. Freedom of Religion will be trumped by matters of morality if the faith contradicts legality. This has not really been true until personal identities became tied to moral issues. “I Am” is the defining issue of life.
This world is less appealing at an increasing rate.
Why does a law school have to state moral positions before opening? I thought a law school deals with law.
Many/most laws have moral aspects to them. You’re basically deciding who benefits, who
doesn’t, etc. I think this is a false dichotomy.
From “The world doesn’t need extraordinary fathers”:
“We don’t need men who are super-dads.
We just need plain, ordinary fathers.”
How refreshing….
“The boat in the backyard” is so good.
Thank you for the links.