Another Religion and Politics Internet Roundup
Again, I have failed to make time to blog lately. Hooray for intensive classes! I have come across several interesting articles and blog posts in the last few weeks. Sometime this week I intend to start posting a chapter by chapter review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. For now, enjoy this internet roundup.
The homosexual marriage debate is particularly fascinating to me and I have been reading a lot about it lately. Here are just a few of the different views I have found. These two posts from Religious Rhetorics provide a look at rhetorical fallacies in the gay marriage debate. Part 1, Part 2.
In that vein, this is an interesting and provocative take on the “choice” to be gay.
Bart D. Ehrman has gotten a lot of attention lately because of his books challenging various Christians beliefs and church history. Here is a short response by N.T Wright to Ehrman’s book God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question – Why We Suffer. Christian Conversations provides us with this Stephen Colbert interview/humiliation of Ehrman, in typical Colbert fashion, about Ehrman’s book Jesus Interrupted.
Many of you know that I go to a Wesleyan seminary, yet I am not generally a big fan of John Wesley. This sermon by Wesley therefore came as a pleasant surprise to me. Wesley has a great view of the potential destructive power of wealth. This sermon on slavery also impressed me, especially considering his socio-cultural context.
Abortion. Thats probably sufficient to get some folks riled up, but I thought this blog post at Nachfolge hopefully reminds us that our actions should be redemptive and restorative for both mother and child.
My wife and I lived and worked in China for a year teaching English and sharing our light and hope with others and we will always feel a special connection to China. So I mourn the violence directed at my Chinese friends on the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Finally, I leave you with what I hope will become a regular feature on my blog; the What The Sheol?!?! section. For my first WTS?!?! I give you this article about a pastor inviting people to bring their guns to church. Just what the world needs…
This entry was posted on June 22, 2009 at 6:32 pm and is filed under Christianity, God, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Religion, Scripture, abortion, church, faith, greed, homosexuality, life, politics. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.
Tags: Bart D Ehrman, Gay Marriage, John Wesley, N.T. Wright, Poverty, Rhetoric, Stephen Colbert, Tiananmen Square, Wealth
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