IO 87: Chrislam for Human Flourishing?
Cherry picking elements from the message of Jesus for political purposes is both an act of theological vandalism and a false, unloving promise of “security.”
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Thy Kingdom Come
One day the Kingdom will come for all to see, and cosmic justice will be served. One day the Kingdom will come in power, and Jesus the great King and patriot of God's Kingdom: the slain Lamb of God shall reign wherever the Sun does it's successive journey run.
Read MoreThy Kingdom ComeDennis Johnson: Two-ism and and the Incarnation
Dr. Johnson’s lecture on the Incarnation is now available. Be…
IO 86: Your “Spiritual-but-not-Religious” Neighbor
When I came to the States in 1964, the great…
IO 82: Something-ism
Many "Millennial Christians," taught to embrace multicultural diversity, believe that being a follower of Jesus Christ is "not about defending some statement from a church creed or theology; it is about testifying to our relationship with Christ through a life of sacrificial love for all people." Faith in experience and social action becomes the "new" Christianity. But the New Testament is full of creeds, statements of truth based on which Christians are called to belief and action. What are Christians to trust, and which belief is a One-ist lie instead of steeped in the truth of the Two-ist Gospel?
Read MoreIO 82: Something-ismThe Irrational Season of Timid Leaders
National Public Radio is doubtless the most irritating and probably the most intelligent radio programming in America. It certainly got my Christmas off to a weird start. On the evening of December 21, 1996 NPR broadcast live from the pseudo-Christian neo-pagan Cathedral of Saint John the Divine via two hundred local and willing radio stations throughout the USA, the seventeenth annual Celebration of the Winter Solstice. The two hour concert was paid for, in part, by tax dollars from the NEA, both an example of pagan Church and State working harmoniously together, and a disturbing harbinger of the future.
Read MoreThe Irrational Season of Timid LeadersReview of Claris Van Kuiken, Battle to Destroy Truth: Unveiling a Trail of Deception (Manassas, VA: REF Publishing, 1996), 320pp.