Showing posts with label theology of salvation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theology of salvation. Show all posts
Saturday, August 17, 2019

"Ladies, You'll Never Have to Use a Washing Machine Again When You Get to Heaven": I Report on a Funeral Sermon

›
Maytag Ad 1959 "Ladies, just think! You'll never have to use a washing machine again when you get to heaven." Then t...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

More on Missionary John Allen Chau: "You Go on a Beach, You Throw a Fish at Some People, You Holler at Them" — This Is Missionizing?

›
Several days ago, I posted some reflections about the story of American Christian missionary John Allen Chau, who was killed by the ...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

Killing of John Allen Chau, Controversy re: Pope Benedict's View of Jewish-Christian Relations, Claim of Franklin Graham That Trump Defends the Faith: Idea of Religious Mission Now in News

›
With the killing of John Allen Chau on North Sentinel Island and controversy about EPope Benedict XVI's understanding of Jewish-...
Monday, June 29, 2015

"The Easiest Way to Make Oneself Righteous Is to Make Someone Else a Sinner": The Churches and LGBT People Today — Grace or No Grace?

›
"the easiest way to make oneself righteous is to make someone else a sinner." @rachelheldevans #searchingforsunday pic.twitter...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Quote for Day: Fred Clark on How Doctrine of Biblical Inerrancy and Individualistic Notion of Salvation Stem from White Southern Evangelical Defense of Slavery

›
Fred Clark thinks that Emma Green's " Southern Baptists and the Sin of Racism " (in The Atlantic ) "provides us a...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Cardinal Brandmüller on German Catholics' Calls for Reform as "Insult to Jesus Christ"

›
Cardinal Walter Brandmüller In the German paper Spiegel , Frank Hornig, Anna Loll, Ulrich Schwarz, and Peter Wensierski report that ...
Saturday, May 7, 2011

What to Call bin Laden's Death?: Michael Sean Winters vs. Michael Moore

›
Bless his heart, Michael Sean just can't seem to help himself, when opportunities arise to take a punchy jab at "the left."...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

John McNeill's Prophetic Witness to the Churches: Enough of the Denial of Gay Love!

›
Jesuit theologian John McNeill has long been a hero of mine. When I could not find a vocabulary to name the love I experience as a gay man ...
Friday, October 17, 2008

End-of-Week Reflections: Christian Necrophilia, Gays as Alcoholics

›
As the work week ends, some theological odds and ends from dialogues this week . . . . Yesterday, I replied to a good comment from Carl on m...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Gay Marriage and Revival of Theology of Hell

›
Fascinating news from California these days. It’s looking as if the implementation of gay marriage is going to usher in a new golden age of...