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• Four Qualms with Alan Chambers’ Apology from the Exodus International Platform

  By CSF on June 25, 2013 • ( 1 )

  Originally posted on ccithink:
  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…

• A Father’s Letter to His Daughter upon Her Graduation

  By CSF on June 22, 2013 • ( 7 )

    To My Sweet Katie, Though the feeling has swept over me many times already, it has not yet come to stay. That is, the realization that my little girl will soon be leaving me to go and pursue her… Read More ›

• The path that leads you away from home . . .

  By CSF on June 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• The Tickle Chronicles

  By CSF on May 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on ccithink:
  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

  By CSF on May 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on ccithink:
  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!

  By CSF on April 30, 2013 • ( 6 )

  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 ›

• Coming Up at ccithink . . .

  By CSF on April 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on ccithink:
  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

  By CSF on April 8, 2013 • ( 1 )

  Originally posted on ccithink:
  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…

• By CSF on March 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on ccithink:
  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…

• By CSF on March 22, 2013 • ( 2 )

  Originally posted on ccithink:
  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…

• By CSF on March 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on ccithink:
  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…

• The Bible on the History Channel, Part 3

  By CSF on March 18, 2013 • ( 9 )

  Ok. Here’s my problem: there is simply too much to write about that is wrong with the History Channel’s presentation of The Bible! I can’t do it, I tell you!! But let me summarize some recurring themes and then get… Read More ›