Proto-Protestantism

Here's an article worth looking at. US neo-cons urge Libya intervention - Features - Al Jazeera English Many Americans grow frustrat...

In light of my recent post regarding Egypt and the comments made from the pulpit, I though this Roberts piece to be appropriate. Why does he...

With regard to this whole concept of Means..... What about the Proto-Protestants? What about the Church Fathers? For me all of this came...

For some this discussion of Means will seem strange. Many who are interested in the non-institutional or as some would put it the tradition ...

Paul speaks of Circumcision in Colossians 2.11 and then of Baptism in verse 12. The ideas are related. The physicals signs differ but the cu...

God willing this will be the first of several posts in which I try to interact with present ecclesiastical understandings and discuss what I...

Sorry for the lack of posts in recent days. Work and other things have kept me occupied. In addition to writing new pieces I have been going...

I received the following email the other day. I decided to post it and interact with it publicly. I receive a lot of emails, some are from q...

Continuing this line thought, this article is rather interesting…. Here you have Chinese Christians that want the American Government to p...

During the Lebanese Civil War back in the 1980's I can remember very clearly that when the Maronite Christians were mentioned in the new...

A couple of additional comments.... In Acts we do see Paul making use of the Roman authorities. He's not afraid to appeal to his citiz...

Very inspiring. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhMepzqJvIw It would be funny except this seems to be going on during a Church service!

For those who really want to 'render unto Caesar'....you might enjoy this link .

A friend recently wrote to me concerning Christians appealing to the US government for aid in petitioning for the release or relief of Chris...

Syllabic verse continues to generate controversy even though it has been an accepted form of poetry for more than a century. While some may...

The latest and very interesting article from Mr. Vance. As usual, a comment first.

We just finished watching president Obama's primetime speech. It's always interesting to see the leader of the United States stand u...

 Today I was thinking about the law and the great importance placed upon it by those in the Evangelical sphere. They place such an emphasis ...

As you can see I've made a few changes. I've been trying to clean up things a bit. I realized that most people don't dig throu...

This is a longer piece dating from 2004 but is still very pertinent to the discussion at this website. For those who wish to wade through it...

 Unfortunately, I now believe this to be a scam. Apparently, there's something of a market for Bibles in Nigeria. There are reports th...

Speaking of Uganda..... In the last piece regarding Africa and many others I've mentioned how American Evangelicals often play the rol...

Another worthwhile read from Margolis.....a few comments first. When you stop and look at Western involvement in Africa over the past two ...

 A note to those following along.... This is probably a little exasperating to those who aren't familiar with the issues. There are ma...

I wanted to answer a series of questions stemming from a couple of comments. My answers are too long to put in the comment boxes. So I just ...

Marinov over at American Vision continues to write articles that are both stunning and telling. My comments are interspersed. You can find...

As usual, Chuck Colson gets it completely wrong. My comments on Iraq, Egypt, and Turkey are interspersed. You can find the original link her...

Here's a beautiful picture of God at work in Siberia. As bad as things are in the American Church, I am constantly encouraged by the new...

By no means do I agree with Vance on every issue, but he's a rare...an extremely rare voice in the Evangelical world. He sees the idolat...

Not Walter Cronkite, but we will tell it the way it is. This article was interesting. Cronkrite is considerably more thoughtful than the fam...

 National Confession, national repentance? How could anyone argue against that? It sounds pure and God honouring, but is it? The entire sphe...

Sorry some of these recent posts have been so long, but rather than divide them up I've just posted them. If you're here, you know t...

Well, I guess Nihilist would probably be a more accurate definition of the philosophical position of this young man. Seeing the world as mea...

My take so far..... You've got a young man who's spouting off about the US Constitution, English language issues, but is also know...

Ever heard of the Obama Prayer? The Imprecatory Psalms, those which call down curses or Imprecations on God's enemies seemed to experi...