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. . . who don't see eye to eye and who don't get along? It's like they're speaking different languages and are from different worlds entirely! Sometimes I feel caught in the middle or feel compelled to side with one side or another or to act as a peacemaker but I also don't want my own views...

A personality trait which many Christians are not known for is FLEXIBILITY. I'm not saying that Christians ought to compromise on their basic values, but rather, that it is beneficial and wise to be flexible about the FORM in which those values are expressed. For example, I believe that it is...

Question: Does God as described in the Bible care about property rights or provisions for the poor? Answer: BOTH. On the one hand, the Law levied mandatory taxes to pay for the needs of the poor, as well as giving them need-based loans and providing for loan forgiveness and foreclosure relief...

1) Insult is motivated by malice and making the other person feel bad, while criticism is motivated by the desire to improve the other person's understanding of something. 2) When you insult someone, you attack his or her person; whereas when you criticize someone, you rebuke his or her words...

IMO, coming from a moderate Christian perspective, they are two of the greatest leaders in America today. While each of them have their strong beliefs (Obama is a political liberal and Warren is a religious conservative), each of them has worked to change the discourse in religion and politics...

Let's post quotes by Christian leaders and authors which reflect a moderate Christian attitude. Here's one I came across recently: "Are you saying that because you don't like what the Bible says about sex that Jesus couldn't have been raised from the dead?" Keller, Timothy. The Reason for...

There are no absentee ballots given to God to fill out (at least none that I'm aware of!) but God does indeed vote! Just not the way you or I vote. You see, the way God votes is to establish whomever it is His will to establish and to remove whomever it is His will to remove. And we can see...

Jesus' teachings and practices with respect to the Law of the Sabbath are instructive and shed much light upon how to apply biblical morality. It is beneficial to worship and reflect upon God, and to do so not infrequently and on a regular basis. There is even a clear and specific rule in the...

Unlike other faith community forums, there are no statements of belief or general descriptions. All we have are "bridge builders" and "moderate Christians" and those are ambiguous and left undefined. Also, there is a link to the original post requesting the forum but the link has long since...

A moderate Christian is not someone who is moderate with respect to his or her Christianity, but rather is moderate with respect to liberalism and conservatism. The moderate believes that both liberal and conservative concerns have merit, but instead of always emphasizing one over the other...

We all know that Jesus was morally perfect, but was He a moral perfectionist? I am defining moral perfectionism not as a belief in and a striving towards moral ideals, but rather as a belief in the perfectability of man on earth as well as an all-or-none attitude that doesn't recognize or...

Aside from controversial moral issues, is basic morality being taught in churches? And even if it is, are churches employing effective methods in helping its members make moral improvements?

Jesus taught His followers to love their enemies and to not seek revenge against them. This is what ought to make Christians exceptional in their love, because just about anyone loves those who love them. And yet apparently this falls upon deaf ears, because born-again Christians are just as...

Saying or writing something negative and untrue about another person unjustly ruins or diminishes that person's reputation and social life. Since people value their relationships as much if not more than their health and their possessions, this is a grievous harm indeed. But born-again...

Superstition, psychics, and mediums are useless and those who rely upon them have no judgment. Not only that, but reliance upon them is inconsistent with a reliance upon the Holy Spirit. And so it should come as a surprise that born-again Christians are just as likely to employ the services of...

Alcohol and drug abuse ruin your health and your finances. They take control away from you so that you might recklessly cause a car accident, commit sexual assault, or get into a violent confrontation. Does anyone really need to abuse alcohol and drugs in order to have a meaningful and...

inappropriate contentography separates the soul from the body. It alters the perspective of men so that they view women not as persons, but as objects or animals. As such, not only is it a frustrating, poor, and empty substitute for a loving relationship, it shoots the viewer in the foot by making it harder to...

Gambling is a sin of financial foolishness. It is for the simple-minded and easily deceived who engage in wishful thinking and get-rich-schemes when they believe they can beat the odds even when they're stacked up against them and get money without earning it. There is absolutely no benefit to...

Secular songs can sometimes be morally instructive. I was thinking about relationships and marriage, and about the view which some people take which is why stay with just one person (in the end)? And then, just for fun, I watched the new Katy Perry video, Hot N Cold, about a guy equivocating...

There's a new book out by David Kinnaman of the Barna Group (they are perhaps the leading research organization serving Christian ministries) called UnChristian: What A New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity . . . And Why It Matters. It's cutting edge, because it uses the latest...