Culture Wars: Many Roads to Heaven (LONG), Captialism

Many Paths to Heaven?
Are American evangelicals abandoning the exclusivity of the Gospel? A new report out from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life suggests that many evangelical Christians are, at the very least, badly confused about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
As Cathy Lynn Grossman of USA Today reports:
Most American religious believers, including [...]

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Culture Wars: Top Reformed Movies

Top “Reformed” Movies?
Kim Riddlebarger

National Review Online just released their top 25 “conservative” movies.  I’ve only seen a couple of them, which means I’m not very conservative, or I have different tastes than John J. Miller, or I don’t see as many movies. 
In any case, the top NRO film was “Lives of Others.” Hmmm . [...]

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“We’re in spiritual combat – cosmic combat for the heart and soul of humankind.”
— Chuck Colson
The Age of the Designer Baby Arrives
The logic of the genetics revolution leads inevitably to the concept of the designer baby.  New technologies bring new possibilities and hard choices, and the new genetic technologies bring genuinely frightening new possibilities.  Now, [...]

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Contradiction Not a Problem
“In the worldview of religious diversity, all religions are equal even if they’re contradictory. No one religion is any more true than any other religion. While this makes for happy harmony on paper, in the real world it just doesn’t work. Try asserting diversity in the following areas:

“It just doesn’t matter what [...]

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Culture Wars: Sparks fly as ‘gay’ activist mob swarms Christians

Sparks fly as ‘gay’ activist mob swarms Christians
Residents of homosexual district: ‘We’re going to kill you. We know who you are’
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Hundreds of homosexual activists rushed out of bars and swarmed a group of Christians who were singing songs in San Francisco’s Castro District – and some even threatened to kill [...]

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Culture Wars:Student Sent Home for Dressing as Jesus for Halloween

Student Sent Home for Dressing as Jesus for Halloween
By Aaron J. Leichman
Christian Post Reporter

Yes, I know Halloween is over, but that isn’t why I am posting this here.
 
An eighth grader at a New Jersey middle school was sent home Friday after he dressed up as Jesus Christ for Halloween.
Alex Woinski, 13, [...]

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Atheism: The Godless Revolution That Never Happened
The above title is taken from a chapter in the eminent sociologist Rodney Stark’s recent book What Americans Really Believe (Baylor University Press, 2008). Anti-Christian prophets such Thomas Woolston (1670-1731) and Voltaire (1694-1778) foretold the disappearance of religion. In the 1960s, anthropologist Anthony Wallace claimed, “The evolutionary future of [...]

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream for the American Church
What the election says about our progress and decline.
by Skye Jethani
Amazing. How else can you describe what happened last week when Barack Obama became the first African American elected President of the United States? However you voted, whatever your politics, the election reveals something about the progress [...]

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Culture Wars: Poverty

What is poverty? What does it mean to live in poverty—who does it affect? Is poverty “just” a lack of money, or is it something bigger (and harder to solve)? Is American poverty different than poverty in other parts of the world? And what are Christians called to do in response?
Several prominent urban ministry leaders [...]

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Odds and Ends

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I write at the very beginning of election day, not knowing the outcome. These are things that we should remember regardless, and they will be applicable regardless. (Of course we know the outcome of the election now, and as Christians, we need to remember this now more than ever.)
1. God is still Father, Christ [...]

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