What Is a Man?

Scattered Words: Men, , homosexuality and the exgay movement “Ben”:http://scatteredwords.com/ has a written an excellent starting point on determining just what it means to be a man. Before I comment further, however, I highly recommend taking a moment to...

Too Much Christmas Music?

I love Christmas music as much as the next person. But the thing I hate is when “you can’t get away from it”:http://www.rmcrob.com/?p=2452 The repetoire of Christmas songs is inherently limited, and to have them repeated hour after hour for six or...

Emotional Sacrifice Offered, Not Taken

I have become a firm believer that the worship portion of the church service should come after the message portion of the service. The common philosophy has always been that worship is to prepare one’s heart to receive the message that has been laid upon the...

“Is He Safe?”

A “couple”:http://www.xanga.com/wildernesschild of “different”:http://bothworlds.typepad.com/both_worlds/2005/12/aslan_as_christ.html “discussions”:http://www.xanga.com/godchaesr have sparked my thinking on the juxtaposition of...

‘Repugnant’ Parts of Christianity

Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | ‘Narnia represents everything that is most hateful about religion’ The columnist that authored this blistering review of the new _Chronicles of Narnia_ movie wrote a lot that was response-worthy, but perhaps this was the...