Jesus Creed

Have you ever told a story that got you out of a traffic ticket? I’ll confess to one.

Well, then is a proper Christian approach to truth simply a chastened modernity, a humble objectivism? So Walsh and Keesmaat are asked in Colossians Remixed.

On October 18 the Church traditionally celebrates the Evangelist Luke: Almighty God, who inspired your servant Luke the physician to set forth in the Gospel the love and healing power of your Son: Graciously continue in your Church this love and power to heal, to the praise and glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ…

This week we are looking at the first of three global crises we face — security — and how Jesus’ message of the kingdom addresses such a crisis. Today we look at the two chps on the military story we find ourselves in in Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change. [Brian is lecturing around the USA…

I’m doing something today I don’t recall ever having done; but enough do it to this site that I’m quite happy to bring a conversation over to this site. I’m copying this whole piece by Greg Boyd: I agree with many of his points (not all) and have been urging a similar idea that many…

We are looking at Colossians Remixed and we come again to the question about whether or not truth is “objective.”

Here is a letter sent to us. Any comment of mine is worthless.

Can sexual orientation change? This is the question Jones and Yarhouse ask in chp 7 of Ex-Gays?. The consensus of the American Psychological Association (APA) is that orientation cannot change. So, J-Y are testing that claim.

We will begin a series next Tuesday on the new book by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons called unchristian. This book is about “what a new generation really thinks about Christianity.” The book reminds me of Dan Kimball’s fine book They Like Jesus but Not the Church, and is a fine complement to Dan’s book.…

One of the more potent questions folks ask postmodernists is if truth is anything more than, or other than, a rhetoric used by those in power to justify their power? Walsh and Keesmaat address the so-called “objectivity” of truth in chp 7 of Colossians Remixed.

More from Beliefnet and our partners