MOD NOTE: I have been deleting and editing a lot of comments because you are not sticking to the topic. This post is about one thing — EXAMINING WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY. It is not about our personal reflections or ethical considerations of the subject. All I want to do is look atContinue reading “What Does the Bible Actually Say about Homosexuality?”
Category Archives: Public Issues
Daniel Jepsen on “How I became Non-Political”
I see the presidential election season is heating up. Soon, it will be a two-man race, Obama versus a candidate to be named later. I find I care less each election cycle. Now, don’t get me wrong. I still vote, and I do so after a good deal of reading about the candidate’s positions. ButContinue reading “Daniel Jepsen on “How I became Non-Political””
Daniel Jepsen on Newt Gingrich, the Religious Right, and Rank Hypocrisy
NOTE FROM CM: Oh boy, another presidential election year is upon us in the good ol’ US of A! Here at Internet Monk, we don’t usually talk much about politics. It was the Apostle Paul who warned us, “Avoid the profane chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge…” (1Tim 6:20). It seems toContinue reading “Daniel Jepsen on Newt Gingrich, the Religious Right, and Rank Hypocrisy”
I’m Dreaming of a Fight This Christmas…
The rumble you hear in the distance is the sound of heavy artillery. The Christmas Wars have begun. The advertisement accompanying today’s post is from the American Humanist Association. These will run on buses, billboards and in newspapers. This is AHA’s third consecutive holiday public awareness campaign to bring attention to discrimination against nonbelievers inContinue reading “I’m Dreaming of a Fight This Christmas…”
When Christians Won the Culture War
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died, and the very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. (Romans 7:9-10, NRSV) • • • There was a time in the United States when Christians got deeply involved in the political process overContinue reading “When Christians Won the Culture War”
Anger At The Poor
So many people these days seem to be angry at poor people. I hear comments by journalists, by so-called pundits, by television and radio talk-show hosts, and by the people who call in on those shows. The poor, according to these professionally angry people, are getting a “free ride;” they’re part of an “all-out warContinue reading “Anger At The Poor”
“The Looming Tower” on 9/11’s Aftermath
By Chaplain Mike One way I thought about the tenth anniversary of 9/11 this week was to read Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. I hope to do a review tomorrow; for today, I offer a few thought-provoking quotes for your consideration and discussion. I wantContinue reading ““The Looming Tower” on 9/11’s Aftermath”
iMonk Classic: Michael Spencer’s Early Response to 9/11
UPDATE: We have had some good lively discussion so far. But I would like to remind us that the point of this post is NOT so much to analyze what Michael thought in the days following 9/11, but rather to use his thoughts as a prompt to help us remember what WE thought and felt.Continue reading “iMonk Classic: Michael Spencer’s Early Response to 9/11”
OK, I’m Blushing…
By Chaplain Mike Why does everything have to be an “issue” for Christians? Why do we feel the need to speak publicly about every matter under heaven? Why is so necessary to make it clear “where we stand” on everything? Can’t (shouldn’t) there be some things that we deal with quietly, privately, personally, face toContinue reading “OK, I’m Blushing…”
Official Historian of the Culture War (for the Right)
By Chaplain Mike What Ken Ham is to evolutionary biology, David Barton is to American history. Ham is not a scientist, nor is Barton a historian. Yet both claim to know and present THE truth about their respective subjects. And because they are such hard workers and good marketers, they have become the spokesmen ofContinue reading “Official Historian of the Culture War (for the Right)”
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