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An ancient Christmas: The offspring
As we saw previously, there is a vocal minority within the wider Christian community that vociferously objects to the celebration of Christmas. They object on three major bases: the birth of Christ is nowhere celebrated in the Bible or in early Christian literature;...
An ancient Christmas: The introduction
There is a small, but vocal, minority of the worldwide Christian community that objects to celebrating Christmas. They argue that that Jesus was not born in late December, and that 25 December was in fact the date of two ancient, pagan holidays: Saturnalia (the...
Don’t panic
There is a popular series of science fiction novels that centres around a fictional book titled The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The Guide is “a wholly remarkable book” and “a highly successful one,” having “already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as...
The Bible tells me so
A little over a month ago, Andy Stanley created controversy throughout the evangelical world by comments that he made in a sermon regarding the Bible. He questioned the Bible as the foundation of the Christian faith, and argued that it is “next to impossible to defend...
Mind your language!
I recently listened to an interview of a woman who had for a long time run a popular Christian website and podcast, but who has since left the theological realm for politics. She has not left the faith, but simply moved from religious to political cultural engagement....
Four views on hell: Everlasting conscious torment
Series introduction: I recently had opportunity to read the second edition of Zondervan’s Four Views on Hell. This series of posts will form my personal evaluation of each of the arguments presented in the book. I, like probably most Christians, was raised in a church...