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Socrates in the City: One of New York’s Best Kept Secrets
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Greuter Socrates (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Scott Fowler I am now a veteran of two Socrates in the City events. (I was there for John Lennox—Oxford scholar and professor and former student of C. S. Lewis!—earlier… -
The Hindu Festival Called Holi and The Color Run
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DC Color Run 5K (Photo credit: Cosmic Smudge) Girl at Holi Phagwa (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By now most people have heard of The Color Run. The Color Run company is a “for profit” venture though the… -
In Plain English . . .
At a certain, specific moment in time, the Second Person of the Godhead, came down to earth and took on a human form and identity in order to reach the human race that had been lost due to sin. He… Read More ›
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Meditation #17 By John Donne
Perchance, he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and… Read More ›
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Sen. Paul: US Churches Should Challenge the IRS – Politics – CBN News – Christian News 24-7 – CBN.com
Sen. Paul: US Churches Should Challenge the IRS – Politics – CBN News – Christian News 24-7 – CBN.com. via Sen. Paul: US Churches Should Challenge the IRS – Politics – CBN News – Christian News 24-7 – CBN.com.
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What hath Uncle Remus to do with Phyllis Tickle? The Tickle Chronicles Part 3
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Uncle Remus as portrayed by James Baskett in Song of the South (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is part 3 of The Tickle Chronicles. Tickle, an extremely articulate and highly influential voice in the Emergence Christian movement,… -
The Tickle Chronicles, Part 2
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Veritas Conversation with Phyllis Tickle and Carmen Acevedo Butcher, 3/3/11 (Photo credit: Wyoming_Jackrabbit) This is part two of my series on Phyllis Tickle. Having been exposed to her through video and print, I ventured to ask… -
What we can expect with the gay rights issue . . .
Since gay rights have now successfully been elevated to the level of a civil rights issue–along with women’s suffrage and black civil rights, as per our President’s inaugural speech–I think we will see the current celebration roll into a full-fledged… Read More ›
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A Disgusting Tweet by Our President!!
Texas Abortion Ban Dies in Senate after Filibuster – Politics – CBN News – Christian News 24-7 – CBN.com. via A Disgusting Tweet by Our President!!.
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Four Qualms with Alan Chambers’ Apology from the Exodus International Platform
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If you have not heard about Exodus International and the recent apology by its president, Alan Chambers, you can read his apology here. Just Google it and you will get all the background you need. By Scott… -
The path that leads you away from home . . .
All the years come suddenly to this moment and we are proud, we are thankful, we are emotional, we are nostalgic. And there is the dawning realization that every step you take from this day forward will be pregnant with… Read More ›
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The Tickle Chronicles
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By Scott Fowler Veritas Conversation with Phyllis Tickle and Carmen Acevedo Butcher, 3/3/11 (Photo credit: Wyoming_Jackrabbit) So, how is it that I have become focused on Phyllis Tickle and, more specifically, her theology and approach to… -
Dallas Willard Passed Away This Week
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Dallas Willard, best known for his book The Divine Conspiracy, passed away on Wednesday morning, he had pancreatic cancer. To me he was best known as a profound thinker in the area of spiritual formation and discipleship.… -
Oh, the Logic that betrays a lack of understanding about Christianity!
If you are not familiar with what happened earlier this week when Jason Collins, an NBA player, who stated publicly that he was gay (apparently the first such participant in a major men’s professional sport to do so), click on… Read More ›
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Coming Up at ccithink . . .
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The Tickle Chronicles Recently, I made an effort to contact Phyllis Tickle. In case you don’t know who she is, she is the founding editor of the Religion Department of Publishers Weekly, the author of several… -
The Sinking Ship of Evangelicalism, Part I: The problem
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The Evening Descends (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Scott Fowler Behind the Times According to Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon (Resident Aliens), Christendom, having begun with Constantine in 313 AD, ended in 1963.1 I can still… -
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By Roger Erdvig “Boys will be boys,” the old saying goes. But did you know that boys in Massachusetts’ schools who consider themselves to be girls have the protected right to use the girl’s bathroom, and… -
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By Roger Erdvig Remember “Bill Nye the Science Guy”? Bill Nye starred in a series of science videos that have been used to make science fun in homes and classrooms for years. I always had my… -
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By Scott Fowler This, of course, is not a surprise. If you can believe it, the logic Bell uses is the bigger problem. Essentially he is saying, “What we have currently believed in the evangelical church…
