Search results

Hi, folks. I used to post here a lot then stopped coming by because, in all honesty, I found it brought up a lot of very un-Christlike feelings in me. However, I am working on a project right now that I'd love some input on. After searching unsuccessfully to find Christian books to read with...

In The Heart of Christianity, Borg refers to another author (Tillich? I can't remember...) who talks about overhearing a conversation at an evangelical college where one student asked the other what God was doing in their life lately, with the idea being that liberal Christians need to start...

What do you do to observe Lent (if you do)? Do you give something up? Take something on? Something entirely different?

So some of the women in my neighborhood have a group that meets once a week during Lent, and I'm debating whether or not I should go. On the one hand, it would be nice to meet people in the neighborhood and to have a place for Christian fellowship outside of coffee hour at my church ;), on the...

Since we know that there are NOT enough "ideal" traditional families out there willing to adopt older, minority, and special needs kids to even make a dent in the need, talk about whether it is "better" for kids to be raised by a mother and a father rather than a same-sex couple is moot. After...

One thing I have never been able to understand is why some people believe that adultery is a valid grounds for divorce, but abuse is not. (And, I know that you can get that intepretation from reading the NT, but I'm looking for any reasons beyond that.) It seems to me that abuse is a far...

Is usury immoral? If not, why not? If so, should it be illegal?

The average age for a first marriage in the United States is 25 for women and 27 for men, and that age is rising every year. The average age of first sexual intercourse in the United States is about 17-1/2 (which is consistent with the age of first sexual intercourse in many other developed...

The Bible is filled with stories of people who God spoke new things to, and they followed God even when what he told them went against the prevailing beliefs of the time. Over and over, we see people listening to God's voice and heeding it, even when God is speaking something entirely now...

I'm just wondering if people who think Cheney having a hunting accident is "no big deal" would think it was "no big deal" if it had been proven (which of course now it can't be since he got to avoid talking to the police for 24 hours) that he had been drunk at the time?

How can you tell a real Jesus from a counterfeit? The real Jesus will be spanking a child. Go to http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_colbert_report/videos/the_word/index.jhtml and click on "Jesi." It's really funny.

What do you think?

http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/05/304.html This is such a fascinating story. Carlton Pearson was a well-known evangelical preacher with a very large church who, at the height of his popularity, realized that God would not torture the vast majority of humanity for all eternity...

Who would you want to make the decision of whether or not she should continue the pregnancy: your family, or the government?

Since so many people here have slogged through the Left Behind books, I'm wondering what people's feelings on Christian fiction in general is. Like it? Hate it? It depends?

I was re-reading The Heart of Christianity at work today, since my husband is reading it, and I was thinking of something while I was reading the chapter about God. Borg talks about how what he deems "supernatural theism" (the idea that God is "out there" and intervenes in our lives some of the...

I do not understand why some people feel that it is totally fine to be entirely dismissive of and nasty to liberal Christians. What it is about liberal Christianity that makes people feel so threatened?

My husband has really been searching spiritually for a while, and I've been praying that he finds a path that works for him. He's generally varied between subtle hostility and total indifference to Christianity, but tonight he expressed a real interest in it. I gave him The Heart of...

The New Testament makes it pretty clear that getting a divorce (with the possible exception of getting one after your partner commits adultery, depending on how you interpret things) is sinful, and that getting remarried after a divorce is committing adultery. As such, why aren't Christians in...

I saw this view expressed on the poll thread, and I didn't want to start a debate there, but I find the whole argument that "If you had been aborted, you wouldn't be here so obviously abortion is wrong" argument ridiculous. If my parents hadn't had sex the night I was conceived, I wouldn't be...