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Why evangelicalism fails
11.24.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsInternet Monk has a great series going on how evangelicalism pushes its own out the door. It’s very hard hitting, and I highly recommend it. I hope to find time to write some about it. Part I: Disillusionment with the Biblical Worldview Part II: Disillusionment with God-Proving Religious Experience Part III: Disillusionment with Christian Community […]
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Should UUs say “Yahweh?”
09.15.08 | Permalink | 5 CommentsUS Roman Catholic bishops have been ordered to quit saying “Yahweh,” one of the common pronuncations of the Hebrew name of God. (“Jehovah” is another common pronunciation of the vowel-less Hebrew name.) Should UUs follow suit? I say “Yahweh” fairly often, or at least as often as it comes up. When I talk about him, […]
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Does Sarah Palin speak in tongues?
08.29.08 | Permalink | 21 CommentsDigg it, diggers. So CNN put up a compare and contrast list between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. It listed his religion as Catholic and hers as Christian. WTF? Putting aside the implication that Catholics are somehow different from, I can only assume, real Christians, I looked Palin up to see exactly what flavor of […]
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Addkison meant it
08.25.08 | Permalink | 6 CommentsI was grateful to see Meg Barnhouse’s article in UUWorld this morning. I’ve been sitting on an angry blog post for several days now, and she has said many things about the Knoxville shotting that I wanted to say, but far more gracefully. Addkison meant to kill UUs. He knows who we are and what […]
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Universalist evangelicals stepping out of the closet
08.19.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Universalist evangelicals stepping out of the closetAnother article about the fragmentation and decline of the evangelical movement and the arguments about how to fix it. This is the first one I’ve read that showcases universalists (besides Carlton Pearson) speaking up for themselves. Some of them believe that instead of calling their reading of the Bible “the truth,” they need to admit […]
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Reverence and snark
08.14.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Reverence and snarkFrom Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue by Paul Woodruff: In our time we hear more praise of irreverence than we do of reverence, especially in the media. That is because we naturally delight in mockery and we love making fun of solemn things. It is not because, in our heart of hearts, we despise reverence. […]
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