The role model in the Christian music scene who doesn’t believe that the book of Genesis is true, the guy who claims Jesus was not quite being honest with his disciples (or perhaps was mistaken) about the accounts of Noah, Jonah, the flood, Adam and Eve and other Scripture verses Continue Reading
Amy S.
How to attract goats to your church
Is church about saints (those who are saved), or sinners goats? Look, we’re all sinners; we need to use our words correctly. Those who have repented and put their trust in Christ alone for their salvation are saints. Another great word we can use here is sheep. The opposite term Continue Reading
Wife of Village Church pedophile speaks out about her abuse
Many questions are mushrooming up over why a megachurch would protect a confessed pedophile while disciplining the man’s wife. The wife of a confessed child porn user working for Matt Chandler’s Village Church has responded to the way she has been treated by the church, You’ll recall last week, Matt Continue Reading
Blasphemy in Philadelphia
I’m not sure how I stumbled across this Central Association of the Miraculous Medal, but it’s even more shocking than someone selling me a prayer cloth on TBN. Located in the heart of Philadelphia. It’s both a website and a shrine, one of the Catholic Church’s top tourist sites where Continue Reading
British Columbia considers removing gender from birth certificates
Oh Canada. Transgender Canadians who have already successfully lobbied provincial and federal governments to make it easier to amend sex designations on key identity documents are now pushing for another change: to abolish gender references altogether from birth certificates. This report via National Post: The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has Continue Reading
Referring to God as “He” makes women feel “less Christian”?
A group in the Church of England says it will shift the language of worship to call God a female, just to be fair. And to combat sexism. (Isn’t that sexism to change the Father, Son and Holy Spirit from He to She?) The “Rev” Emma Percy, chaplain of Trinity Continue Reading
Tim Keller, Catholic Mystics, and Genesis I as a poem?
A lot of well-known pastors are promoting Lectio Divina, and many churches are taking that to mean that surely, this ancient prayer practice of emptying the mind is A-OK. In his recent research article, Tim Keller promotes Catholic mystic, rejects Genesis 1 as literal truth, John Lanagan notes that Keller has advocated Continue Reading
Boys: slip on a dress and you can join the Girl Scouts!
Girl Scouts isn’t just for girls anymore. But then again the Feminist Movement has been trying to blur and eliminate gender lines for decades. Now the Girl Scouts of America has changed its policy: Boys dressing as girls can join them for weekly meetings, campouts, changing, sleeping arrangements, and other Continue Reading
“Psst … Lectio Divina … your mysticism is showing.”
One of the most pervasive of all the Contemplative, er, Contemptible Prayers, is a little practice called Lectio Divina. It comes to us via the ancients of the Catholic monks, and no longer sneaks in the back door of our churches – it marches down the center aisle and sits Continue Reading
Emergent Catalyst conference says it’s time to “awaken your wonder”
Catalyst, the premiere mega-conference for Emergent Church Leaders, is sending a curious message to potential attendees of its next Atlanta conference Oct. 7-9: We are hardwired for wonder. Just as the wonder of the world points to God, a sight unseen, so too should our acts of creation bridge the Continue Reading