I chose to study and follow up on this Buddhist teacher and style of meditation because of all the spiritual disciplines, I feel that this…
If you’re like me, you really want to accomplish great and fun things in your life, but you never quite muster up the focus, energy,…
I spent my silent retreat in the outfield at my local community sports park, and was not interrupted until the last hour of my sit,…
George W. Braswell Jr.’s Islam: Its Prophet, Peoples, Politics and Power is a concise yet fairly comprehensive introduction to the history, doctrines, and practice of…
This paper was written for a graduate level M. Div. class at Fuller Theological Seminary. The author of the book I used, James W. Sire,…
In A Muslim View of Christianity: Essays on Dialogue (Faith Meets Faith), Mahmoud Ayoub attempts to initiate, describe and model Muslim/Christian dialogue. These collected lectures…
This post is part of a series. Many people know “The Lord’s Prayer” by heart because it is chanted like an incantation at many churches,…
One of the Facebook forums that I watch but rarely participate in (more heat than light) is called Atheism vs Christianity (no holds barred). Recently, a…
In 2014, I attended the inaugural Rethinking Hell Conference, at which John Stackhouse Jr. gave an outrageously fine opening lecture (see more of the lectures…
I have read and annotated my books for a long time, but I have always subconsciously been unhappy with the system I developed. So I’ve…
This post is part of a series. Listening to yet another daily horror committed by ‘extremist’ Islamists, I again became incensed at how many people (millions)…
This series is made up of the following articles: The Philosophical Case for Conditionalism 1, Introduction The Philosophical Case for Conditionalism 2, The Main Arguments…
This post is part of a series. In Part 1, I introduced the idea that, in addition to scriptural arguments in support of Conditional Immortality (CI),…
This post is part of a series. One way to state the ethos of the Christian story would be to state it in terms of the…
Today I read an article about another Evangelical pastor deciding that the Bible does not condemn homosexuality. The article mentioned that a non-traditional interpretation of…
This post is part of a series. I have previously catalogued my exodus from the bondage of Arminian Holiness to the peace of Reformed Theology,…
I’m not talking about eros, I’m talking about being passionate for accomplishing something worthwhile in your life. Most of us are not – we’ve lost…
When we think about communicating the truths of scripture to one another, and especially to the outside world, we often focus on only one of…
This article is part of a series on Molinism. Calvinism has been summarized in the acronym TULIP, while Arminianism has been summarized in The Five Articles of…
The Christian faith claims to answer a lot of tough questions about life, the universe, and everything. For most of life’s dilemmas, the bible seems…
One challenge to the Christian faith is the claim that the uneven distribution of faith around the globe may challenge some of Christian claims about…
There are many forces which pressure us away from the ministry of grace and gospel – personal finances, demonic and human opposition, our own doubts…
I am irritated with the whole Global Warming (GW) discussion, for many reasons, and I am not alone. A recent episode of the excellent podcast…
One of the moral challenges to the Christian viewpoint entails the fate of those who have never heard the gospel, a.k.a ‘the unreached,’ and whether…