- 10/26/2012
Can I Be a Christian and a Divorce Lawyer?
I have a church member, a devoted Christian, who is an attorney specializing in divorce cases. Our church believes that divorce is (in almost every case) sin. If so, isn't he empowering sin? Should I counsel him to follow Christ by walking away from this job and to do something else?
8 comments - 10/12/2012
Farewell to the American Protestant Majority
According to a new study by the Pew Forum, Protestants are, for the first time in history, not a majority in the United States of America. I don't think that's anything for evangelical Protestants, or anyone else, to panic about. Frankly, we should be more concerned about the loss of a Christian majority in the Protestant churches than about the loss of a Protestant majority in the United States.
95 comments - 10/05/2012
How Church Discipline Can Be Like Doctor Shopping
Law enforcement officials use the term "doctor shopping" to refer to the way those addicted to prescription pain medications seek to avert accountability. I've noticed the same thing going on when it comes to church accountability. The truth is, there's a certain type of personality that doesn't want accountability, but affirmation.
9 comments - 09/23/2012
Is Tim Tebow a Chauvinist?
Tim Tebow says he wants a wife with "a servant's heart." Does that make him a misogynist? Jezebel, a feminist website, picked up on comments Tebow made in an interview with Vogue magazine, in which he said he wanted a wife who lived up to the high standards set for him by his mother and sisters.
147 comments - 09/21/2012
Should Christians Adopt Embryos?
An "embryo" isn't a thing; he or she is a "who." These so-called "snowflakes" are brothers and sisters of the Lord Jesus and are stored in cryogenic containers in fertility clinics as the "extras" of IVF projects. They already exist, and they already exist as persons created in the image of God. And there are Christians called to adopt them, to bring them to birth through pregnancy, and to raise them in love.
96 comments - 09/12/2012
How Christians Should Engage Latter-day Saints
Christians often wonder why Mormons believe such an incredible system: golden tablets translated with "magic glasses," an advanced society of ancient American Indian Israelites who left behind no archaeological evidence at all, an eternity of godhood producing spirit babies, and special protective underwear. What we must understand is that Latter-day Saints believe these things for the same reason that people everywhere believe the things they do: they want to believe them.
496 comments - 09/08/2012
Why Blasphemy Laws Are Wrong
It's worth Christians asking: just why are blasphemy laws wrong? Now, obviously, as Christians we disagree with Islam and its teachings. And, obviously, we stand in solidarity with our persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ. But why would such laws against blasphemy not be appropriate in the reverse case.
62 comments - 09/06/2012
ParaNorman and the Fear of a Christian America
I think this movie might be one more window on how the people we are called to love view us. The movie itself veers at times toward empathy. If there's any group easier to be demonized by Hollywood, one would think it would be undead Religious Right activists.
62 comments - 08/23/2012
Is Skinny-Dipping in Galilee Sacrilegious?
Conservative Christians, obviously, aren't for getting naked in public and drunk anywhere. That said, I don't think there's anything here to be outraged about, as some sort of act of desecration. It was, to be sure, immature and stupid.
35 comments - 08/18/2012
Pat Robertson vs. the Spirit of Adoption
I had promised never to mention Pat Robertson here again. Every few months he says some crazy scandalous thing. Let me just say this bluntly. This is not just a statement we ought to disagree with. This is of the devil.
66 comments - 08/15/2012
Good News for Bad Preachers
I received an email from a young minister who is discouraged. He's just starting out in ministry, and says his preaching is terrible. He's trying to improve, but is just starting out, and is mediocre. Here's what I think. Your first few sermons are always terrible, no matter who you are.
15 comments - 08/01/2012
Race and the Gospel in Mississippi
As a Mississippian and as a Baptist Christian, I cringed the other day when I heard that the First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs had moved a couple's wedding ceremony to another venue, to keep a controversy from erupting in the church.
27 comments - 07/27/2012
Is Gun Control a Pro-Life Issue?
Gun violence is clearly a pro-life issue to the extent that murder is evil and a violation of the dignity of the person and the right to life. That said, usually what people mean by including gun violence as a pro-life issue is not about gun violence, directly, but about gun control measures.
231 comments - 07/24/2012
Why Are So Many Men Hooked on Internet Porn, Video Games?
You know the guy I'm talking about. He spends hours into the night playing video games and surfing for pornography. He fears he's a loser. And he has no idea just how much of a loser he is.
183 comments - 06/13/2012
Black and White and Red All Over: Why Racial Justice Is a Gospel Issue
The arguments for racial reconciliation were persuasive, ultimately, to orthodox Christians because they appealed to a higher authority than the cultural captivity of white supremacy. This authority couldn't easily be muted by a claim to a "different interpretation"
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