Juicy:
Michael White, The Guardian, Former archbishop of Canterbury attacks gay marriage at Tory conference
ACNA News, ACNA, Former Lost Boy of Sudan Ordained in Diocese of the Great Lakes: God’s Restoring Love at Work
Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine, Faith and Freedom: Why Liberty Requires Christianity
Denny Burk, Denny Burk, What is an evangelical? Responding to Rachel Held Evans
Spicy:
Timothy Tennent, Timothy Tennent, 4 Things United Methodists can learn from the Episcopal Church
Joshua Gonnerman, First Things, Why Matthew Vines Is Wrong About the Bible and Homosexuality
Peter Hitchens, The Daily Mail, What’s Socialist about State Ownership? Beats Me
Miles S. Mullen, The Anxious Bench, David Barton, Civil Religion, and Patriotic Idolatry
Rotten:
Nicholas Hahn III, Real Clear Religion, Frank Schaeffer: The RealClearReligion Interview
Timothy Dalrymple, Philosophical Fragments, Harvard’s Pastor: “It Does Not Matter if Christianity is True…”
Allison Althoff, Christianity Today, Why Churches Worship Illegally—In Paris
Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine, The Sexual Revolution and its Victims
Comment by dover1952 on October 13, 2012 at 4:43 pm
As usual, Frank Schaeffer is coherent, accurate, and brilliant in what he has to say. When Christian fundamentalism and conservative evangelicalism fall completely in about 50 tears or less, Frank will be remembered as one of the great and true Christian lights that made it happen.
Comment by dover1952 on October 13, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Sorry about that typo.. I meant “50 years.” However, when it does happen, my suspicion is that about 50 tears will be shed, which seems like justice to me because these religious traditions no longer shed any tears for the “least of these.”
Comment by dover1952 on October 14, 2012 at 2:01 am
One more thing. The article by Miles Mullin is very good, and I agree with his main conclusion.
Once upon a time, I actually sat in a Sunday school class at Central Baptist Church in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (an SBC church) where the teacher openly made the point that God had made Israel desolate, had taken away her role in God’s plans, and that God had crowned the United States as the NEW ISRAEL to take his work forward in the world.
In that same church, I learned that the Roman Catholic Church is an “evil worldwide religious system.” That message was driven home in a sermon one morning that was led by our preacher, who had been one of W.A. Criswell’s little darling understudies at the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas.
I was so glad to escape from that place.