Critique of “What’s the Least I can believe and still be a Christian?” by Martin Thielen
“First I want to stress that throughout the book, Thielen’s pastoral heart shines through and one realizes that he genuinely does have a sincere desire for people’s lives to be transformed by the power of the Risen Christ.”
Is Atlas about to Shrug??
“The challenge we as Christians have when reading Atlas Shrugged (or any of Ayn Rand’s other work) is to take the true and right from her work–of which there is much in the area of political/economic macro ideas–while rejecting the naively sinful egoist worldview upon which it rests.”
Quick thoughts after reading “Love Wins”
“If you’re enjoying the discussion here in the Dojo with my buddy Jake (“Are the Young/Restless/Reformed crowd jerks??”), stay tuned for more that I will share in coming posts as I deal with the specific issues involving critique verses attack and how we can tell the difference.
For now, let me just share a few bullet point observations about the book and the controversy now that I’ve had a chance to read “Love Wins” for myself…”
Blatantly taking advantage of the Rob Bell mini-controversy
Since Rob Bell dominated the Christian blogosphere over the weekend, thanks to being denounced by Justin Taylor, John Piper and Kevin DeYoung (if any of them want to slam “Bible for the Rest of Us” or “Revelation: A Guided Tour of the Apocalypse” I’d GREATLY appreciate it!!) I thought I’d share a review I wrote of a prior book of his for those who may be wondering who this Rob Bell character is and what he’s talking about.
Were Hitler and the Nazis Christians?
“The fact is, Hitler and the Nazi party would never have risen to power without appealing to the religious sentiments of the German people. Thus, they carefully crafted rhetoric that would enable them to appear as faithful leaders who God had appointed to bring Germany back from the ruin it had experienced after WWI.”
You decide…
Elevating the conversation between Christians and the GLBT community
Elevating the conversation between Christians and the GLBT community – my latest Examiner article on a really good book I’m reading! JM
Need help getting rid of 2 EXCELLENT resources!
In the ongoing effort to keep my Biblical languages up, I recently got a copy of Zondervan’s Reader’s Hebrew and Greek Bible. I had the original Reader’s Hebrew Bible and Reader’s Greek New Testament separately, but I found that I didn’t use them very often because I didn’t want to have to carry around both [...]
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