What if you could survey the entire scope of Christian doctrine at once: a brief enough summary to show the whole thing at a glance, but with enough detail to see the various parts and how they relate to each other?
As a stand-alone experience, that wouldn't be especially valuable: it would be too much information, too fast, without enough emo...
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Once I had a membership card in the Moral Majority and my wife listens to Dr. James Dobson.
We work at Biola University, a flagship university for conservative Christians in the United States.
Recent media reports about our fear of the Tea Parties certainly describe our feelings . . . though they underplay the terror and loathing that fills o...
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There are shows that died before their time, such as Firefly. There were certainly shows that suffered from a lack of love and budget cuts, see the third season of Star Trek: The Only Non-Derivative Version.
One television favorite of the return-to-nature wing of homeschooling is Little House on the Prairie and I would nominate it for the show ...
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Philippians is among the sweetest books of the New Testament. It is a short letter from Paul to a congregation that he obviously feels and expresses great affection toward. In 1898, JB Lightfoot, the Bishop of Durham, said that Philippians is “not only the noblest reflexion of St. Paul’s personal character and spiritual illumination, his large ...
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There is a lot of material to cover in the doctrine of Scripture: everything from its deep background in God's will to redeem us and reveal himself, to the "business end" of the doctrine in providing a user's guide to the English Bible an ordinary believer holds in his or her hand. In between are topics like inspiration, canonization, inerrancy, a...
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Today (March 6) is the birthday of A. T. Pierson (1837-1911), one of the most influential figures in the history of conservative Protestantism. An American evangelical, Pierson had an extensive teaching ministry throughout the English-speaking world; the most famous post he held was that he took over the pulpit of the Metropolitan Tabernacle as C....
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Spoiler alert: I will be talking about plot in this review, so don’t read it if you haven’t seen the movie, or unless you don’t plan on seeing it anyway!
Most people who hear the name Oxford immediately think about J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings) or C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia), but they often forget that the “City of Dreaming ...
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