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CITY JOURNAL Adam Freedman Obergefell’s Threat to Religious Liberty The Supreme Court decision takes self-government out of Americans’ hands. 1 July 2015 Despite what the newspaper headlines say, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges did not...
WHY HAS GOD CHOSEN TO REVEAL HIMSELF UNIQUELY THROUGH ISRAEL AND JESUS CHRIST?
When you consider the claims of Christianity to a unique revelation of God in Christ as in Acts 4:12, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved” I find the following explanation of Emil Brunner to be helpful....
RESPONSE TO THE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RULING OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
In the light of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the right to same-sex marriage the following two statements represent my belief. The first is that of the Bishops of the Anglican Church of North America, and the second is from Albert Mohler, the President of Southern...
WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHURCHES NEED TO FOCUS ON THE NEW TESTAMENT AND NOT THEIR DENOMINATION
On August 12, 1941, at two months old, I was carried across the street in my home town by my parents to All Saints Anglican Church, to be baptized. At age fourteen I reaffirmed my baptismal vows when I was confirmed by the Bishop. A few months later I committed my...
NEW E-BOOK AVAILABLE ON KINDLE
SOUL FOOD: Daily Devotions for the Hungry, Volume 3 for July, August and September, is now available on Amazon Kindle. Topics covered include: Independence Day, the Sermon on the Mount, the Gospel Miracles, selected Psalms, the "I AM's of Jesus, the Parables of Jesus,...
A FABLE ABOUT LIFE AS A DANGEROUS JOURNEY AND THE VIRTUES OF REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING
Kazuo Ishiguro in The Buried Giant has written a novel that is reminiscent of Tolkien’s The Hobbit. It is the journey of Axl and Beatrice, two elderly Briton’s, to find their son, whom they can hardly remember due to a mist that afflicts post-Arthurian Britain. The...
WHY I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST
Some years ago I wrote a book on Faith, entitled Buried Treasure. One of the chapters was entitled, Why I Believe in Jesus Christ. We reproduced it many times on request and always ran out of copies so we have made it into an e-book available on Kindle at Amazon....
WHY RATIONAL MAN DOES NOT LIKE CHRISTIAN FAITH
What is the relationship of reason to faith? “Faith is not that suicidal rigid sacrifice of the intellect for which it is often mistaken; it does not imply the denial of the intellect as such, but only its limitation and control. But it is precisely this limitation...
WHAT IS THE MAIN POINT OR UNIQUE ELEMENT OF CHRISTIANITY?
I want to share with you some of my reading through the work of Emil Brunner (1889-1966) who was professor of theology at Zurich 1924-1953. “In Christianity faith in the Mediator is not something optional, not something about which, in the last resort, it is possible...
FATHERHOOD AND MASCULINITY
Jonathan Last in an article on fatherhood, manliness and failure, A Dad’s Life (The Weekly Standard, May 25, 2015) asks whether there is anything that unifies the good parts of manliness. He maintains that the nuclear core of manliness is, what Harvard Professor...
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