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Although the two-kingdoms paradigm can provide a valuable lens for viewing any area of our social and cultural lives, for most of us, few areas loom larger than our economic lives. Preachers often tend to tactfully steer clear of financial subjects, except perhaps on one or two Sundays a year, in...

In his entertaining ' Hell's horror vs Heaven's Happiness ' Mark Jones discusses time and eternity, especially time in heaven. In this brief blog I take the liberty to comment on it. He makes the distinction between the timeless eternity of God's existence with no beginning, no ending, no...

I've joined the nation in following, with some degree of fascination, the saga of an Olympic gold medal decathlete announcing on national TV that he is now a woman. This process of becoming a woman has involved, for Jenner, the modern scientific techniques of hormone therapy, breast implants, and...

The early days of January 2015 have been disturbing ones for Western Europe and the 'democratic' world generally, as the streets of Paris have been visited with devastating violence and death manifesting the fruits of a totalitarian Islamic ideology growing again in influence and power. The Ottoman...

Amidst a week of controversy for Presbyterian Christians in the United States, the elders of Town Center Church in Keystone Heights, Florida, released a pastoral letter outlining their new policy regarding the admission of those who listen to the music of Creed to church membership. "In the past we...

Evangelicals, always a couple decades behind the latest mainline bandwagon, have in recent years become very fired up about ecumenism. And yet, we rarely seem at all sure what it's supposed to mean. Does it mean that we're all just supposed to love each other? Or that we need to break down the...

I am grateful to James Merrick for his thoughtful and measured response to my piece on Lent and for providing me with an opportunity to address the matter further. Reading Merrick's response, I suspect one of my ecclesiological assumptions needs to be made explicit. Let me be clear: I have no...

It's that time of year again: when we catholic Christians brace ourselves for the blizzard of blog posts by chilly Puritans who hope to warn their flocks against the vices of Ash Wednesday and Lent. I don't have much interest in entering into what appears to be an in-house conversation about the...

The early days of January 2015 have been disturbing ones for Western Europe and the 'democratic' world generally, as the streets of Paris have been visited with devastating violence and death manifesting the fruits of a totalitarian Islamic ideology growing again in influence and power. The Ottoman...

Swedish archeologists working near Gadol Eshed Nahar in Midwestern Palestine have discovered what seems to be conclusive textual evidence of the existence of Q. Scholars of early Christianity have long regarded Q--an abbreviation for " Quelle " (a German term which means "source")--as one of the...