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Archive for July 18th, 2005
McLaren on PBS
Monday, July 18th, 2005“Religion & Ethics Weekly” aired two segments on the so-called Emerging Church movement in the last two weeks. Read the transcripts or download the videos here: Part 1 and Part 2. The second primarily profiles McLaren.
Newsflash: “George W. Bush is Not Lord”
Monday, July 18th, 2005So begins a recent editorial by Christianity Today. It continues: “The Declaration of Independence is not an infallible guide to Christian faith and practice. Nor is the U.S. Constitution, nor the U.N. Universal Declaration on Human Rights. “Original intent” of America’s founders is not the hermeneutical key that will guarantee national righteousness. The American flag [...]
I need a new laptop
Monday, July 18th, 2005p>Rudy and Bob (not to mention CoCo, Matt, and dozens of others) are working me over to get a Mac. It’s not a hard sell, actually. My first meaningful computer experiences were all on Macs, circa. 1985, and I preferred using Macs all the way through law school. But $$$ realities (the lack thereof) have [...]
Was it seven literal 24 hour days?
Monday, July 18th, 2005Literalists took a hit last week when Washington, DC’s Cardinal Theodore McCarrick said that a belief in “theistic evolution” can be consistent with Christian teaching. Predictably, some are outraged. Why? If the Genesis creation accounts (Genesis 1 and 2 offer two different tellings of the creation story from two different perspectives) are literally true, then [...]