I love Christmas movies. We have many great family memories of watching Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas or singing “Sisters†and “Snow†with the cast of White Christmas. I have some personal favorites like almost any version of A Christmas Carol, the original Tim Allen Santa Clause and the strangely dark and mysterious Prancer. I’mContinue reading “Miracle on 34th Street Ecumenism”
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The Issues At Stake
CatholicVote.com has put together a good video on the upcoming election. Well worth your time. (HT to Trevin Wax.) The fact that the candidate choices aren’t very attractive to many of us doesn’t change the importance of what an election itself means.
Roger Oakland and Evangelicalism’s Shrinking Map of the Church
Roger Oakland does apologetics and “discernment†ministry at a well known web site. His theology is highly influenced by dispensationalism. I recently visited his web site from a link at Phoenix Preacher, taking note of his warnings about how to know your church is going “emerging.” What we have here are Oakland’s “Signs That YourContinue reading “Roger Oakland and Evangelicalism’s Shrinking Map of the Church”
The Internet Monk Musical Has Been Canceled
It’s always sad to lose regular commenters, but the last post seems to have cost me a couple. Can’t say that I’m surprised. If you read Internet Monk regularly, you probably have those days you want to tell me to get over it, to shut up already, to take a happy pill, to find somethingContinue reading “The Internet Monk Musical Has Been Canceled”
One Stock That Needs To Drop
If you are one of those people who monitor this blog for material to get me in trouble, go get a legal pad and two good pens. Back in the Golden Age of this blog, I wrote quite a bit about my own Christian experience. Those “confessional” pieces made at least half of this blog’sContinue reading “One Stock That Needs To Drop”
Responding to D.A. Carson’s “Five Trends In The Church”
In his talk before the Desiring God conference, Dr. D. A. Carson mentioned Five Trends In The Church Today. Read the summary before reading my response. I don’t know if the talk itself is out there, but from the summary posted at Acts 29, I found a lot to agree with. (Which I usually doContinue reading “Responding to D.A. Carson’s “Five Trends In The Church””
Rebaptism: How Did We Get Here?
LINK: John H at Confessing Evangelical is one of six Lutherans in the UK. He comments on some of my advocacy of Wright’s “consensus” position on baptism. In my response to him I reference the document “Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry” from the WCC. I know, but it’s really excellent. Just a friendly warning that IContinue reading “Rebaptism: How Did We Get Here?”
Rebaptism: What Is It?
Since I have some break time ahead of me, I’m going to do several (3?) posts on Rebaptism. I know there are several angles to this subject, varying according to your own denominational preference. I am going to be writing from my position as an evangelical, a Southern Baptist and a lifelong minister to youth.Continue reading “Rebaptism: What Is It?”
Hey America…We’re All Here
I haven’t written anything political in a while, but I find myself wondering…. Are we really as stupid in this country as the main stream media make us seem to be? After more than two and a quarter centuries, are Americans really as clueless about their country as we seem to be listening to ourselvesContinue reading “Hey America…We’re All Here”
The Missing Voice of the Christian Counter-Culture
(For N.T. Wright, Bono, Bob Dylan, Sara Groves, Derek Webb, Steve Earle, Larry Norman, Johnny Cash, Michael Been and Steve Taylor) Floating somewhere around the web is a picture/mp3 of Anglican bishop and theologian N.T. Wright, complete in lavender shirt and bishop’s collar, playing Bob Dylan’s sixties anthem, “Blowing In the Wind†on an acousticContinue reading “The Missing Voice of the Christian Counter-Culture”
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