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Preacher's Kid: Honest Faith, Real World
‘Christian’ music? It’s about honest messages, not style, genres or even origins
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remims
To be a preacher’s kid in a Fundamentalist Christian/ Pentecostal home in the 1960s and early 1970s was to be engaged in a full-on “culture war,” even decades before that term came to define our nation’s current theological, ethical and political divides. For me, it was music that was the battleground. Back then, the veterans…
Blackjack for Jesus? For some, doublin’ down for the Lord is in the cards
By
remims
Back in my days as a religion writer for a metro newspaper, I asked some ministers about what I thought was a rather simple question: “If a member of your congregation won a jackpot at a casino, the lottery, or some other gambling payoff and offered part or all of it to your church, would…
Surveys show believers want more than just a ‘born again’ formula
By
remims
George Barna, the dean of evangelical Christianity research, says the traditional, American model for “born again” faith just isn’t working. That model, which I became intimately familiar with growing up in the home of a fundamentalist Pentecostal Christian preacher, goes like this: “Whatever your problems, Jesus is the answer. Say the ‘Sinner’s Prayer,‘ accept Christ…
9/11 ceremony: A matter of prayer, or creating controversy?
By
remims
There are plenty of reasons for Christians to feel persecuted these days, whether at home or abroad. At home, the so-called “culture war” has people of faith and the secular world more polarized than ever, and believers find themselves increasingly under fire as the rift widens. Overseas, Christians meet in secret house churches, risking imprisonment…
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