Month August 2008

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Trig Paxson Palin

I posted a link to this article back in May but considering current events I thought it was worth posting again. The Palins never considered aborting the baby. That means that Trig Palin is now is a very rare group…

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When Prayer Becomes Political

Any Thoughts?Is it appropriate for a Christian to invite people “of other faith traditions” to pray to their own god?Is it appropriate for a Christian to refer to false doctrines and idolatries as “other faith traditions?”

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The Surprising Work of God

Over vacation, one of the books I finished was Garth Rosell’s new book, The Surprising Work of God. Rosell, former director of the Ockenga Institute at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, uses the relationship between Harold John Ockenga and Billy Graham as…

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The Day They Tried to Recruit Me

The day they tried to recruit me to the most dangerous cult in the world! I arrived on Faculty at Westminster in the summer of 2001.  I had only been on campus for a couple of months before a group…

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The Catholic Church rebukes one of its own

Nancy Pelosi probably wishes she had not publically commented on the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and its history and teaching regarding abortion. She has been receiving a steady stream of rebukes from various officers in the Church since…

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The Wesleys and Marriage

An Anglical priest has, according to The Times “decoded” Charles Wesley’s 1,000 page diary written in code and kept at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, England. Among the “secrets” revealed is a turbulant relationship between Charles and his brother…

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Is Protestantism Dead?

As a regular reader of First Things I was quite interested in Joseph Bottum’s article in the August/September issue – “The Death of Protestant America.” Check out this helpful commentary by Al Mohler on Bottum’s observations. In the course of…