Posts by Kevin Schaal
Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far? | News | The Guardian
Over the past few decades the Bible has been increasingly sidelined, and the law has vindicated the young doctor who put Antonius to sleep. As people got used to the new law, the number of Dutch people being euthanised began to rise sharply, from under 2,000 in 2007 to almost 6,600 in 2017. (Around the…
Read MoreWhy Science Strengthens the Pro-Life Argument | RealClearPolitics
Can science undo the havoc that Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey wreaked on America? The country’s leading pro-life leaders believe so. “Unique From Day One: Pro-life Is Pro-science,” the theme for this year’s pro-life March for Life, focuses on the natural alliance between mother and child.This year the March for Life will showcase experts on modern…
Read MoreEvangelicals Seek Detente With Mideast Muslim Leaders As Critics Doubt Motives : NPR
In recent months, evangelical Christian leaders have been traveling to the Middle East to meet with rulers of Islamic countries and with Muslim clergy.The participants say the meetings — especially one they had in November with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — are unprecedented, and aimed at promoting religious freedom in the region.Johnnie Moore,…
Read MoreAmerican Jews and Israeli Jews Are Headed for a Messy Breakup – The New York Times
Is the world ready for another Great Schism? Source: American Jews and Israeli Jews Are Headed for a Messy Breakup – The New York Times
Read MoreIs Temptation My Fault or God’s?
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed (James 1:13-14) I have always had difficulty reconciling this verse with my understanding of…
Read MoreWhite Jesus
We tend to make God in our own image—literally. Many conservative Christians find black depictions of Jesus in art as odd, a sort of self-serving reinterpretation of history for personal or ethnic reasons. It is actually. Equally so are the representations of Jesus as white. Jesus was not white-skinned. He did not have brownish or…
Read MoreSomebody’s Grandpa
As I drove down a street near my home last week, I saw him again. He is an older man with long flowing white hair. He walks with a sense of purpose and large plastic bag slung over his shoulder. He always wears a pair of 1980’s vintage acid washed jeans that look…
Read MoreCovering Abuse and Sin Is a Tragedy for the Work of Christ | Paul Chappell
Jesus told us that Satan, as a thief, comes “to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” (John 10:10), and nowhere is that more profoundly seen than in situations of abuse.We are always saddened to hear of sin and abuse in the Christian world and in Baptist ranks in particular. In such instances, we are…
Read MoreReport laments history of slavery and racism at SBC seminary – Baptist News Global
A Southern Baptist seminary that believes the Bible forbids women from being pastors and that being homosexual is a sin has been wrong before, according to a 71-page report released Wednesday on slavery and racism in the history of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Citing “a sinful absence of historical curiosity,” seminary president Albert Mohler commissioned…
Read MoreAndrew Sullivan: America’s New Religions
So what happens when this religious rampart of the entire system is removed? I think what happens is illiberal politics. The need for meaning hasn’t gone away, but without Christianity, this yearning looks to politics for satisfaction. And religious impulses, once anchored in and tamed by Christianity, find expression in various political cults. These political…
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