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Author Archives: Jay F Guin
Another One of Those Drug-Induced Dreams (except without the drugs)
I work up Sunday morning having had the strangest of dreams. I told my wife, “I dreamed Alabama beat Clemson 34-10 last night. It was the strangest thing. We beat a top-10 team by dominating the line of scrimmage on … Continue reading
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MDR: Introduction
In internet discussion forums and blogs, the controversy regarding the Bible’s teachings on marriage, divorce, and remarriage are so common that it gets its own acronym: MDR. The topic is so controversial that some forums actually bar discussion on the … Continue reading
I Sold My Soul on eBay: What Churches Do Wrong, Part 4
The offense of religious exclusivity This complaint of Mehta’s is not that we think only Christians are saved. Rather, it’s that Christians seem to unnecessarily refuse to associate with non-Christians. His first example is that fact that the Boy Scouts … Continue reading
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Scientific Creationism (Beginning)
I’ve been around science since I was in diapers. My mother read to me from the Time-Life Nature and Science series before I was in kindergarten. I used to wake up early and skip school to watch the Mercury and … Continue reading
I Sold My Soul on eBay: What Churches Do Wrong, Part 3
Religious extremism Mehta points out that Christianity has many nationally prominent personalities who embarrass the church. He particularly criticizes those who announce that natural disasters and epidemics are God’s vengeance on the U.S., homosexuals, etc. His suggested solution is simple: … Continue reading
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The Political Church: The Democratic Party Does Theology, Part 3
After the Patristic period, as the church increasingly became the Catholic Church, attitudes toward abortion shifted. The church saw life as beginning at quickening (when the mother could feel the baby move). This derived from the combining of Grecian thought … Continue reading
The Abuse of Ministers by Elders
Well, it’s nearly September. The year is 2/3rds over, and the thoughts of church leaders quite naturally turn to football budgets. And so here’s a great post from Patrick Mead on how so many congregations mistreat their ministers. And while … Continue reading
I Sold My Soul on eBay: What Churches Do Wrong, Part 2
Not paying attention in church Again, Mehta nails us. One would think the adults would be role models, listening to the pastor, maybe even taking notes. Instead, what I saw especially in some of the smaller churches were adults who … Continue reading
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The Political Church: The Democratic Party Does Theology, Part 2
Here are the Patristics on abortion. You can see that the very earliest documents routinely and repeatedly prohibit abortion. In fact, one of the truly distinctive doctrines of the early church was its opposition to abortion and infanticide, both of … Continue reading
The Political Church: The Democratic Party Does Theology, Part 1
I’m not interested in using this blog to diss the Democrats. I mean, both parties are pretty awful in my book. I vote, but I do so holding my nose. But the church is, by its very nature, political, as … Continue reading
