Archive for March 2006
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March 31, 2006
General Update
8:47 am | Announcement | Comments: 0
As you can see, there hasn’t been a blog post here in the past couple of weeks. For what it’s worth, I also haven’t been playing Eve, keeping up with my normal mailing lists, or reading all my RSS feeds in that time. In other words, all of my leisure time has been at a […]
March 13, 2006
Fundamentalist Dominionist Reconstructionist Theocrat Boogey-men
10:49 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
On one of the online forums I frequent, a user posted a link to Katherine Yurica’s article “The Despoiling of America” to open the forum up for some discussion. For people whose impression of Christianity are televangelists with bad makeup jobs and who have seen bits and pieces of what is often termed Religious Right […]
March 12, 2006
Emotion and Apologetics
2:57 am | Apologetics | Comments: 0
Earlier I posted a discussion about how evangelism and apologetics should work together as partners in a post-modern setting. But I also wanted to discuss another aspect of evangelistic approach that needs to work directly with apologetics and evangelism: Emotional Sensitivity and Empathy in conversation.
After some time of ministry on a secular college campus and […]
March 10, 2006
Are Moments of Silence Violations of the Separation of Church and State?
9:28 pm | Naturalism | Comments: 0
Is having a mandatory moment of silence in a public school a violation of the separation of church and state? Apparently so, according to a fellow student at the University of Texas at Dallas who is petitioning to have moments of silence in a Texas public elementary school ruled unconstitutional.
March 9, 2006
A postemergent comment on Rhett Smith’s comments
7:12 pm | Emergent Church | Comments: 0
The Emergent No blog recently posted a transcript of Absolutely Not! A critical look at the emerging church movement, a lecture delivered by Phil Johnson at the 2006 Shepherds’ Conference. In my opinion, Phil Johnson does an excellent job of providing a valuable critique of the emergent movement. To put it simply, he gets it. […]
The Postemergent Conversation
5:36 pm | Emergent Church | Comments: 0
There has been plenty of discussion generated since Andre’s original posting about why he’s post-emergent:
post emergent pt III - sharing the wealth
Besides myself, Andre interacts with a number of other comments that have appeared around the blogosphere.
Also, some thoughts by John Umland:
a Jamaican church planter’s reaction: why I’m post emergent
Racial Constantinianism and why […]
March 3, 2006
Youth in the Crosshairs - of whom?
3:58 pm | Homosexuality | Comments: 1
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force yesterday released a detailed report entitled Youth in the Crosshairs: The Third Wave of Ex-Gay Activism which (supposedly) outlines the most recent set of approaches being used by ministries that help individuals who struggle with problems of sexual identity and sexual addiction including homosexuals. The Alliance Defense Fund […]
Eve Online, MySpace, Facebook, Modernism to 11, Integrity and True Community
9:44 am | Technology | Comments: 0
Yesterday the folks at CCP released a major expansion to EVE Online called Bloodlines, which among a number of updates as a few additional races to the world of Eve. Unfortunately this update was not as smooth as the recent server upgrades, which caused a number of Eve players to rub their eyes, wander outside […]