Source: Religious identity in a secular age: InterVarsity and human sexuality | ERLC
Religious identity in a secular age: InterVarsity and human sexuality | ERLC
Joy and the Good Life – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics
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)
Evangelical Universities, Activism, and the Life of the Mind
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 […]
Evangelicals, Heresy, and Scripture Alone | Mathew Block | First Things
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
Reflections on Turning 40 While Single and Childless | Family Studies
Source: Reflections on Turning 40 While Single and Childless | Family Studies
On Wealth and the Bible, The First Christians Were Not Like David Bentley Hart
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
Does the New Testament say wealth is intrinsically evil? | Acton PowerBlog
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 Split on Whether Religious Freedom or LGBT Rights Are More Important
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
Americans willing to talk about politics, but few anxious to discuss religion
While it’s hard to pinpoint the precise moment it happened, it’s clear that most American discussions of religious liberty have turned into shouting matches about “religious liberty,” a term now commonly framed in “scare quotes.”The recent U.S. Commission on Civil Rights “Peaceful Coexistence” report made this clear, claiming the First Amendment’s defense of the free […]
Civil Righteousness and the Gospel in the American Church | First Things
It’s one thing for the American political regime to value Christian churches because they help supply the moral requisites for sustaining the regime; for churches themselves to conceive of their purpose in this way is quite another thing. Source: Civil Righteousness and the Gospel in the American Church | James R. Rogers | First Things