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The Briefing 10-15-14

Podcast Transcript 1) Same sex marriage supporters limit religious liberty to worship service context only Marriage equality in America: So far, so fast, The Economist The staff and their souls, The Economist Which freedom comes first?, T ...

October 15, 2014

The Briefing 03-04-14

1) We may lose the marriage argument with the culture, but we're in trouble if we lose it with our kids A Shifting Landscape, Public Religion Research Institute Survey: Americans turn sharply favorable on gay issues, Religion News Services (Cat ...

March 4, 2014

Ask Anything: Weekend Edition 02-01-14

Your questions this week: 1) Is 'Word of Faith' doctrine a good reason to leave a church? 2) Why would God create people who are doomed to hell? 3) Should I date someone from another denomination? 4) Why don't Evangelicals consider surro ...

February 1, 2014

The Briefing

Endeavour Lifts Off on Its Final Flight... Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'... After Hinting Otherwise, Huckabee Says He Won't Run for President... The End is Near? The False Teaching of Harold Camping ...

May 17, 2011

“A Massive Shift Coming in What it Means to Be a Christian?” — TIME Magazine Considers Rob Bell

The edition of TIME magazine timed for Easter Week features a cover story on the controversy over Rob Bell and his new book, Love Wins. Interestingly, the essay is written by none other than Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former e ...

April 15, 2011

A Theological Conversation Worth Having: A Response to Brian McLaren

Some theological disputes amount to very little and serve mostly as exercises in missing the point, if indeed there is a point. Other doctrinal exchanges are quite different and deal with matters of central and essential concern to the Christian fait ...

March 23, 2011

We Have Seen All This Before: Rob Bell and the (Re)Emergence of Liberal Theology

The novelist Saul Bellow once remarked that being a prophet is nice work if you can get it. The only problem, he suggested, is that sooner or later a prophet has to speak of God, and at that point the prophet has to speak clearly. In other words, the ...

March 16, 2011

Doing Away with Hell? Part Two

The doctrine of hell has recently come under vicious attack, both from secularists and even from some evangelicals. In many ways, the assault has been a covert one. Like a slowly encroaching tide, a whole complex of interrelated cultural, theological ...

March 10, 2011

Doing Away with Hell? Part One

After reviewing the rise of the modern age, the Italian literary critic Piero Camporesi commented, “We can now confirm that hell is finished, that the great theatre of torments is closed for an indeterminate period, and that after 2000 years of horri ...

March 8, 2011

Never Having to Say You’re Dead? The New Interest in Reincarnation

Dr. Paul DeBell believes that he was once a caveman. Not only that, he is fairly certain that his life as a caveman ended violently. "I was going along, going along, going along, and I got eaten," said the psychiatrist. To his life as a caveman, Dr. ...

August 30, 2010

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