Don’t Blame the Boomers for Everything
…outrageously says or foolishly tweets], no one has tried to track how many of these came through the Jesus or Seeker movements. [Yes, I’m sorry to say that we are…
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The Politics, or a-Politics, of the Evangelical Church in the 1970s
…of the Jesus Movement mostly didn’t even know about him. That fall I enrolled in the Summer Institute of Linguistics, in Dallas, for graduate school. SIL is the academic arm…
Vigen Guroian on Politics vs. Witness
Orthodox theologian Vigen Guroian tells us that orthodoxy of community is a better witness than politics. I agree. But the Religious Right was originally triggered into politics partly by a…
Book Notice: “Losing the Good Portion,” by Leon Podles
…from Podles was that when the vote for women became an issue at the end of the nineteenth century, it was the religious conservatives in Catholic countries that pushed for…
The Political Meaning of ‘God’
…Society. Nor does Society ordain the state, the family, or any other such major institution. I am not insisting on a ‘personal’ God at this point, but that ultimate standards…
The H-word, and the Other H-word
…rendered by “gut” or “bowels.”) And when the Jesus Movement came, and evangelicalism began to change its styles to follow cultural changes, rightly or wrongly (which is beyond the scope…
Welcome to My New Website!
…need to stop using ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative,’ ‘left’ and ‘right’ for theological and moral views. Instead, ‘orthodox’ vs ‘modernist’ or ‘heretical.’ The Deals. Trump is not really a Christian or…
A ‘Protestant-ish’ Argument for Icons?
…make it possible for believers to be less dependent on the clerical class. And icons seem to have fulfilled a similar function for the Orthodox people, in their own way….
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
…administration. I never really personally met people of a different view (except for a few conservative Catholics) until I ran into Jesus Movement people in college after 1970. The one…