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The Briefing 04-04-13

Story 1 - Basic Human Decency Includes Celebration of Homosexuality Chipotle Sets an example with Boy Scouts, USA Today (Bob Garfield) Gay Man Says Catholic Parish Rebuffed Him After Marriage, The New York Times (Sharon Otterman) Story 2 - M ...

April 4, 2013

Of First Importance: The Cross and Resurrection at the Center

The Christian faith is not a mere collection of doctrines — a bag of truths. Christianity is a comprehensive truth claim that encompasses every aspect of revealed doctrine, but is centered in the gospel of Jesus Christ. And, as the apostolic preachin ...

March 29, 2013

The Dark Night in Denver — Groping for Answers

The news hit the airwaves like a sudden onslaught, and the truth began to sink in. It has happened again. This time, 50 people shot while attending the midnight premier of the last in the Batman sequence, "The Dark Knight Rises." According to press r ...

July 20, 2012

We humans are creatures of days and dates, though most fade quickly into the fog of memory. Researchers have recently identified a newly discovered phenomenon called "hyperthymesia," more commonly known as "autobiographical memory." Those who possess ...

May 18, 2012

Is the Megachurch the New Liberalism?

The emergence of the megachurch as a model of metropolitan ministry is one of the defining marks of evangelical Christianity in the United States. Megachurches -- huge congregations that attract thousands of worshipers -- arrived on the scene in the ...

May 1, 2012

A Laboratory for Christianity’s Destruction

As the BBC reports, some church leaders in the Netherlands want to transform their small nation into a laboratory for rethinking Christianity -- "experimenting with radical new ways of understanding the faith." Religious Affairs Correspondent Robert ...

August 26, 2011

False Start? The Controversy Over Adam and Eve Heats Up

Each generation of Christians faces its own set of theological challenges. For this generation of Evangelicals, the question of beginnings is taking on a new urgency. In fact, this question is now a matter of Gospel urgency. How are we to understand ...

August 22, 2011

Theology, Therapy, Twitter, and the Scandal of the Gospel

There is no shortage of perplexing realities in our world today, but counted among them must be the fact that many rather well informed people seem to be shocked that Christians believe the doctrines of Christianity. Over the weekend, Rep. Anthony W ...

June 14, 2011

An Unmitigated Theological Disaster — Kirby Godsey Strikes Again

"Most Christians assume that Christianity is the one and only religion that is God-inspired and that carries the imprimatur of God's blessing," laments R. Kirby Godsey. In his new book, Is God a Christian?, Godsey sets out to oppose that assumptio ...

June 9, 2011

The Church and the ‘Clobber Scriptures’ — The Bible on Homosexuality

Is the Church guilty of beating people with the Bible? As strange as that argument might sound, it is actually a powerful weapon in the hands of those who are determined to normalize homosexuality and same-sex marriage within the Church. Those pushin ...

June 3, 2011

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