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Americans agree: It’s ‘Merry Christmas’ Reuters Posted Friday, December 08, 2006 Americans are ready to put “Merry Christmas” back into holiday shopping, a new poll shows. The majority of Americans surveyed — 95 percent — said they were not offended by a “Merry Christmas” greeting in stores, according to a poll by Zogby International.

Tony Swift’s reflection (straight from the heart) about leadership. New blog: John LaGrou at Microclesia.

If you have either visited the Holocaust Museum or read any of the many works of Elie Wiesel — like Night — you will know one word pushes itself to the front of his vision: Remember! Remember the Holocaust is his mantra. In Miroslav Volf’s brilliant new book, The End of Memory, Volf both renews…

Perhaps America’s most prized possession is freedom. We call it “liberalism.” Stanley Hauerwas contends that “liberalism is a political philosophy committed to … a social order and … government … formed on self-interest and consent.” Notice those two terms: self-interest and consent. Nothing threatens us more than those two terms. Not that I don’t value…

Psalm 119:45 and 47 are delightful lines: “I will walk about at ease” and “I will delight in Your commandments.” That first line is evocative.

Here is Richard Dawkins’ essential thesis: “any creative intelligence, of sufficient complexity to design anything [the God hypothesis], comes into existence only as the end product of an extended process of gradual evolution” (The God Delusion, 31). And the God of the Old Testament, according to Dawkins, is arguably the most unpleasant character in all…

M and W night I was at Reclaiming the Mind for a lecture and discussion about The Real Mary. I suspect I’ll be talking about Mary for years because of this research I’ve done, but I’m beginning to hear some pretty common questions — like this one: Are you afraid that if we begin to…

Psalm 119:44-48 is an interplay between “going public” about commitment to Torah and the joy that comes from that Torah. The going public can be found in vv. 44, 46, 48, and the joy in vv. 45 and 47. Today “going public”; tomorrow the “joy.”

Growing out of the Reformation is the contention that there are “two marks” of the Church: the Lord’s supper and preaching of the Word: Word and Sacrament. Some added “church discipline” as a third mark. The Catholic tradition has been “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic.” I wonder what you see as the necessary and sufficient…

Dear Matt, You’ve asked me what is one of the most commonly asked questions about the emerging movement, but the way you ask about it is both funny and typical. You said: “I tell everyone I’m an ’emerging’ Christian but what (I’m afraid to say I don’t know) are we emerging from? Whenever someone asks…
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