My colleague, parishioner, and prolific author Philip Jenkins has a new book out that has just been given a brief review by Publishers Weekly. The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Philip Jenkins. HarperOne, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-147280-0 Revisionist history is always great [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Christianity’
An Evangelical Manifesto
My friend and colleague Paul Flesher wrote a column two weeks ago concerning the Evangelical Manifesto. I don’t believe that I have seen it before, but it looks very promising as it distances the signers (see Paul’s column below for some examples) from those, including the press, who define evangelicalism as the “religious right” political [...]
Francis Collins stepping down
Francis Collins is not only (or was) the head of the Human Genome Institute, he is also a convert to Christianity. He wrote The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (which leads me to make two observations [1] we know it is scholarly because there is a colon in the title and [...]
Don’t Christians have better things to do with their time?
This is just embarrassing. Group finds Starbucks logo too hot to handle Starbuck’s new retro-style logo A Christian group based in San Diego found grounds for outrage over the new retro-style logo. By PAUL WALSH, Star Tribune Seems that one person’s smut is another person’s morning latte. A Christian group based in San Diego found [...]
Poll: WWJV – “What would Jesus vote” (or would he vote at all)?
I was reading this story from the Seattle Times (HT to Andy Crouch who is quoted in the story; and Eugene Cho) and it ends with this quote: Braun, the seminary student, said he’s not totally committed to any candidate yet. “I just keep thinking, if Jesus were alive now, he wouldn’t necessarily be voting [...]
