Dr Michael Kruger wrote a little book entitled "The 10 Commandments of Progressive Christianity." This book was a response to another devotional series that formulated a new 10 commandments for progressive Christians. Commandments 1 & 2 both reduce Jesus to a mere example as opposed to being God...
Where Christians tend to split on progressive sanctification comes when holiness, achieving a blameless life, occurs. Most assert it happens when a believer dies and goes to heaven, as nothing impure can enter heaven (Revelation 21:27). However, some Chr
So we have Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell, Jr, Tony Perkins, Pat Robertson, and other right wing so called “devout Christians”, unconcerned, as long as the court system is made extremist right wing, and tax cuts are given to the wealthy, and the nation moves toward promotion of theocrac...
[From the Alhambra] we look back to the 700 years of Muslim Spain, in which Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together in relative peace and prosperity; and in which all three religions co-existed comfortably with advances in science, technology, and culture that were largely unknown in the ...
These are not “good Christians” or any other faith, and should be denounced for what they are, peddlers of hypocrisy, who should be called to account and rejected by all decent people! Just a reminder: Jesus, who these haters say they follow, was a Jew, and his people, the Jews, ...
For Jewish Christians, to be "hung on a tree" was associated with an ancient curse. Paul refers to it in Gal 3: 13: "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree’" (The reference is Dt ...
It’s also an insult to Christians who face real persecution in Muslim countries and authoritarian regimes where they are in the minority. Evangelicals feel emboldened to demonize and persecute LGBTQ people because the gays and lesbians in their pews are in the closet, and they know no one ...
Most elite universities seem to have little interest in diversifying their student bodies when it comes to the numbers of born-again Christians from the Bible belt, students from Appalachia and other rural and small-town areas, people who have served in the U.S. military, those who have grown...
But when it comes to recognizing the work of the SPIRIT in our lives, well let’s just say, that the SPIRIT would need tongues of fire to get most 21st century mainline Christians to recognize the SPIRIT. So, as it’s Pentecost, I’d like to call out the SPIRIT. Don’t panic. I...
(countervailing federalism) both started as ideas of a radical minority. Today, radical wings in the animal rights movement (i.e. scientific anti-vivisectionists) and the abortion issue (i.e. pro-life Christians) have also been able to move the center. (Granted, abortion is legal, yet ...