by Jim Stitzel | Feb 21, 2006 | General
I’m always thrilled when people ask me to write about a particular topic. It’s nice to know that people are reading and actually interested in the things that I have to say and in my take on whatever topic comes to mind. Here’s one that came to me...
by Jim Stitzel | Feb 20, 2006 | General
Ales Rarus – A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog » Have Christian Bloggers Lost the Plot? Funky Dung, over at “Ales Rarus”:http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/, considers an “interesting...
by Jim Stitzel | Feb 20, 2006 | General
Richard asks: A friend of mine asks: “have u truely forgiven someone if you still cannot trust them?†Good question: what say ye? “#”:http://theconnexion.net/wp/?p=1910 Forgiveness does not necessarily beget trust. Forgiveness simply means that...
by Jim Stitzel | Feb 20, 2006 | General
Rushan had a question posed to him recently that requires some attention, I believe: bq. “I can no longer accept the Bible as literally true, am I still a Christian?†If you read my “previous article”:http://open-dialogue.com/blog/?p=213, you...
by Jim Stitzel | Feb 20, 2006 | General
I don’t have a problem with fundamentalism, _per se_, though I suspect that I technically don’t fall into that category of religious faith as the definition stands currently. The word ‘fundamentalism’, as applied to religion, varies in its...
by Jim Stitzel | Feb 17, 2006 | General
Some things just won’t let me alone until I write about them, and this is one of those things. I read in the news yesterday that Saddam Hussein had taken to protesting his own trial by going on a hunger strike. Add this to his other antics – shouting,...