Joy, an emotion that ranks close to the top in the hierarchy of emotions, is also the least studied. And yet joy is much richer than the feeling of happiness, to which an entire industry is now lucratively devoted. Source: Joy and the Good Life – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I have made no secret of my disagreement with the historical and theological reasoning Mark Noll employed to lump together dispensationalists, holiness churches, and Pentecostals in his indictment of evangelicalism’s anti-intellectual impulse. Yet Noll and George Marsden, among others, have rightly pointed out how activism operates as a fundamental force within evangelical identity. This operation […]
Source: Please stop calling pro-abortion politicians ‘Christians.’ They are heretics. | TheBlaze.com
Two years after a study found most Evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical—especially on the Holy Spirit—an update has been released. And the numbers are in some ways even worse. So who—or what—is to blame? Source: Evangelicals, Heresy, and Scripture Alone | Mathew Block | First Things
Patients are susceptible to coercion and control. Source: D.C. is about to vote on physician-assisted death. Here’s why it’s dangerous. – The Washington Post
Source: Reflections on Turning 40 While Single and Childless | Family Studies
Neither the New Testament nor the writings of early Christians support the idea that material wealth is intrinsically evil. Source: On Wealth and the Bible, The First Christians Were Not Like David Bentley Hart | Public Discourse
In a recent article in Commonweal, the Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart responds to a rebuttal article written last year by Acton research director S Source: Does the New Testament say wealth is intrinsically evil? | Acton PowerBlog
Americans are divided as to whether religious freedom or LGBT rights should be favored when the two concepts conflict with one another. Source: Americans Split on Whether Religious Freedom or LGBT Rights Are More Important
“God grants life, God should take it away, that’s my religious belief.” – Tim Kaine Source: Tim Kaine Abortion Catholics | National Review
