Mark Galli at CT has a great editorial up on the relationship between religion, Christianity and the gospel. Galli urges Christians to pay no heed to affirmations from sociologists affirming the beneficence of religion. He notes that while Christianity is a religion, as defined by sociologists, what stands at the heart of Christianity is something [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Christianity Today’
18 Aug
Lovers or Thinkers: Getting Beyond Worldview
James K. A. Smith has just come out with a new book that looks fascinating. From what I have read about the book I gathered this impression: Smith wants to redirect education by describing humans first as lovers, not as thinkers. If so, then worldivew is not really the bedrock layer, but rather something underneath [...]
27 Jul
Gay Marriage & Individualism
Interesting editorial fom Mark Galli at Christianity Today, commenting on the connection between radical individualism and the redefining of marriage.
27 Jul
Theological Education in Sweden Takes a Hit
Sweden’s government seems ready to step in and regulate the training of pastors at seminaries, Christianity Today reports. The reforms force seminaries to focus their degree programs on general religious studies, rather than on ministry training and biblical studies. It is only a matter of time until theological education in America faces a similar challenge, [...]
8 Jul
Great Interview with Mark Noll and American and Global Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, a subset of Christianity that is conservative theologicaly particularly in regards to Scripture, has been blamed for distorting the Christian faith in its missinoary efforts abroad. The claim is that early and even current evangelical missionaries imported American cultural Christianity more than genuine Christian belief. Mark Noll offers his perspective on both past and [...]
6 Jul
What Christians Can Offer
Mark Galli at Christianity Today has written the most convicting and challenging editorial I have read this Summer. His insight into the current state of Christians in the public sphere creates a sense of dissapointment, while simultaneously convicting individual Christians and the local church of suffering the same faults. His proposed solution is a challenging [...]
17 Mar
Links for Late in Tuesday
I could have titled this post links to Out of Ur. Or I could just post a linke to Out of Ur at the beginning of this post and be done. However, I want to add a little commentary to what I’m linking to. First, going back about ten days, is an excellent piece by [...]
3 Mar
Link for Tuesday
Christianity Today has a brief story on an evolution debate raging within several universities in Texas. Regardless of where you land in the debate it would seem that the goal of education would involve presenting both the strengths and weaknesses of an argument. In fact, should not proponents of evolution want the weaknesses in their [...]
27 Feb
U2
Just in case you were looking for a review of their new album, Christinaity Today has one. But then again it may not be what you’re looking for…
27 Feb
Photos
I thought this was an interesting photo gallery of images from the seige of Leningrad layered over contemporary photos of the city. Also, the commentary on this post is valuable, the first photo is haunting. Christianity Today has launched an image blog, Imago Fidei. A couple of the photos are quite good.
