Cornerstone U. Keeps Bans on Smoking, Drinking, and Gambling
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The Baptist Bulletin’s Norm Olson reports.
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"I don't find much that I recognize as Christian in the religious right."
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NPR interviews Randall Balmer, author of Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America.
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Calvary Chapel Discontinues Purpose Driven, Reject Emerging
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“Both Purpose Driven and the emerging church promote contemplative spirituality, which is a belief system that is contrary to biblical Christianity. Popular authors such as Richard Foster, Brian McLaren, Rick Warren, Henri Nouwen, Brennan Manning and many others teach contemplative spirituality (also known as spiritual formation).”
Story Here.
Story Here.
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Oy Vey! The Purpose-Driven Synagogue?
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Mark Noll Moves on to Notre Dame
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John H Armstrong gives some personal insight on Mark Noll’s departure from Wheaton to replace George Marsden at Notre Dame.
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Evangelicals Learn To Love Big Government
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“(T)he National Association of Evangelicals (NAE)—representing 52 member denominations and about 30 million evangelicals—has become one of the most talked-about lobbying groups in the nation.”
See this Wall Street Journal article.
See this Wall Street Journal article.
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Panel Discussion on Contemporary Evangelicalism | ACCC Convention 2005
NOTE: This article was orginally published on November 3, 2005. It was part of a liveblog of the 2005 Annual Convention of the American Council of Christian Churches
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The Folly of Pure Incarnational Ministry
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“…(O)ur model of Jesus has to be one that He commends. This means that, while maintaining all appropriate humility and never considering ourselves morally superior, we will discriminate against false teachers, not converse with them. This means we will have to know what constitutes true teaching and what constitutes false teaching.”
-David Wayne, JollyBlogger
-David Wayne, JollyBlogger
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