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So What Does an Atheist Do With the Bible? — Ideology Meets Etiquette

Author Christopher Hitchens, striving for the uncontested title as the World's Most Strident Atheist, suggests that our culture is experiencing "something like a change in the zeitgiest" -- and that that change means a new openness to atheism. His bo ...

October 1, 2007

Church Planting Movements and the Great Commission

Is the planting of new churches the defining model of Great Commission faithfulness in this generation? That question is asked by Tim Stafford in an article published by Christianity Today. In "Go and Plant Churches of All Peoples," Stafford suggests ...

September 28, 2007

What Really Happened in New Orleans? An Anglican Schism Draws Closer

"We want that statement to be clear and unambiguous and we are working in that direction," said Episcopal Bishop Neil Alexander of Atlanta. The bishop made this statement at a press conference during the meeting of the Episcopal Church's House of Bis ...

September 26, 2007

Ex Libris — The Knife Man

We have learned to believe that modern medical knowledge and practice can perform wonders of healing without fanfare. We take such things as vaccinations, antibiotics, anesthesia, and antiseptics for granted. Beyond all this we assume a background of ...

September 25, 2007

Arrested Development and the Civilizational Crisis

This much is now clear -- Americans are taking a lot longer to grow up. As a matter of fact, this society has developed a period of extended adolescence that is completely without precedent in human history. Diana West traces this development in The ...

September 24, 2007

Ex Libris — An Intelligent Person’s Guide to History

John Vincent takes no prisoners when it comes to battles over history.  Professor of History at the University of Bristol, Vincent is also a former fellow of Peterhouse at Cambridge University.  He is certainly no stranger to controversy, and he reco ...

September 20, 2007

The Sacrifice of Isaac — Was Abraham a Fanatic?

The contested interpretation of Old Testament passages rarely makes the pages of the nation's leading newspapers, but The Chicago Tribune recently looked at the interpretation of Genesis 22 -- the passage about Abraham offering up Isaac. Religion ...

September 19, 2007

Ex Libris — The Preached God

The editors of The Preached God describe Gerhard O. Forde as "one of a small number of American Lutheran theologians who have made an indelible mark in theology in the United States and internationally." Edited by Mark C. Mattes and Steven D. Paulso ...

September 18, 2007

Anglicans on the Brink

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, is set to meet with the bishops of the Episcopal Church USA [ECUSA] in a last-ditch effort to avoid a head-on collision between the American church and the worldwide Anglican Communion. Neither side in th ...

September 18, 2007

“Gen-X Humanism for the Passionately Confused?” — A Chaplain for Unbelief at Harvard

Harvard University's humanist chaplain considers himself something of a ministerial vanguard -- a help and inspiration to fellow unbelievers. Furthermore, he is evangelistic in his promotion of unbelief as a foundation for meaning. Preparing to presi ...

September 17, 2007