The News Story Making the Internet rounds is the story of a 17-year old girl who was kicked out of a homeschool senior prom. She was wearing a dress that was deemed inappropriate in length for the dance by the chaperones. As someone who has seen some of the dresses and Halloween costumes that pass as clothing I want to firmly say, “YES, there are inappropriate clothing choices that people make and YES the school does Read More …
Today World Vision announced that it would allow same-sex married couples to work in their organization. In typical fashion people are throwing the baby out with the bath water and calling for people to withdraw funding from World Vision and giving them the “farewell” to the Christian Faith. Rachel Held Evans had some interesting interactions on Twitter today: she acted as a prophet in today’s Evangelical Twitter Wilderness. Here’s part of one her Read More …
Starting a sermon with a joke that isn’t funny.
I came across an image (not shown) of a street preacher while on the inter-webs and on his sign was a url. Knowing better, but not acting on it, I went to the website. On a side note, I’m not opposed to street preaching, I just think it’s ineffective. But, I am opposed to people preaching a gospel that is not really the gospel. Well, here is the “Gospel” according to their page. What is the Read More …
HT: Tony Jones
Andrew Sullivan is the founder of a political blog called The Dish. He recently attended the funeral of his friend at an Evangelical Mega-church. The post is worth reading in its entirety—here. The most interesting part of his piece is this. What I guess I’m trying to say is that so many of us have come to view evangelical Christianity as threatening, and in its political incarnation, it is at times. But freed from politics, Read More …
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