New York Times soccer blog lists out the trademark moves named after players.
Author: Craig
why you need not fear public debate on faith and spirituality
Brit Hume stirred the souls of many when he suggested on a public broadcast that Tiger Woods should consider Christianity. Some people were outraged, some agreed, and some wondered if we should even be talking about this idea in public.
Ross Douthat, writing for the New York Times suggests that public discourse about matters of faith need not be feared but pursued.
When liberal democracy was forged, in the wake of Western Europe’s religious wars, this sort of peaceful theological debate is exactly what it promised to deliver. And the differences between religions are worth debating. Theology has consequences: It shapes lives, families, nations, cultures, wars; it can change people, save them from themselves, and sometimes warp or even destroy them.
If we tiptoe politely around this reality, then we betray every teacher, guru and philosopher — including Jesus of Nazareth and the Buddha both — who ever sought to resolve the most human of all problems: How then should we live?
It’s reasonable to doubt that a cable news analyst has the right answer to this question. But the debate that Brit Hume kicked off a week ago is still worth having. Indeed, it’s the most important one there is.
Read the whole article here.
Identity videos used on the weekend
I have had several inquiries about the videos used on the weekend in Part 3 of our series, Renew my Life Lord! This week we are exploring how to battle our spiritual amnesia by “remembering who you are and who’s you are.” You can watch the videos below.
american myths and the real pilgrims
Happy Thanksgiving America.
Apparently, the first Pilgrims on the Mayflower were both devout and tolerant. Great characteristics to possess and from which flow genuine liberty.
The Pilgrims – unlike British Puritans who wanted to turn Massachusetts into a theocracy – sharply advocated church-state separation. They heretically believed that women should be allowed to speak in church. They were far more tolerant of other faiths and open to the idea that their theology, like all human dogma, might contain errors.
Pilgrim experiences “in the cosmopolitan Netherlands are a reason they are less rigid or dogmatic in their views about what people must and must not do,” argues Jeremy Bangs, curator of the American Pilgrim Museum in Leiden and author of “Saints and Pilgrims,” a 900-page reappraisal published this year on the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival in Leiden.
“The pilgrims didn’t have witchcraft hysteria, they didn’t kill Quakers. These are big differences!” notes Mr. Bangs, a former curator of Plimoth Plantation whose work draws heavily from untapped Dutch and New England archives. “Pilgrim leaders were less prone to persecute…. The possibility that others may be right and they may be wrong is something influenced by their time living in an extraordinary community of other exiles in Holland.”
Read the whole article in the Christian Science Monitor.
The Gospel in all its forms, by Timothy Keller
Last night I ran across this article again by Timothy Keller on The Gospel in All its Forms. I appreciate the article because Keller pulls back together confidence in a clear, straightforward and “simple” presentation of the Gospel and respect for the breadth of the Gospel. Read
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