August 27th, 2006 by iMonk
What do homosexuals and the political state of Israel have in common?
Both are the subjects of a flawed approach by Christians concerned about suffering and the Christian witness. While the Christians involved are very different, their errors and resulting actions are very similar.
The suffering of the Jewish people is […]
April 10th, 2007 by iMonk
UPDATE: Frank Turk hits it into the upper deck on this story. I’d welcome other links as well. Areopagitica had the first post I saw on it.
UPDATE II: Six months ago, Restless Reformer and BHT fellow Travis Prinzi was on this story. Jeff Sharlet says he will post the whole […]
May 8th, 2007 by iMonk
Maybe you ought to read “The River is Deep, The River is Wide: How I Made My Peace With the Roman Catholic Church” before you waste all that time trying to figure out what I believe. Then you can get right down to blogging about the fact that I’m going […]
November 6th, 2006 by iMonk
How could Tony Montana be your hero?
You don’t know Tony Montana? Where have you been? Tony Montana is the protagonist of the 1983 Al Pacino film, Scarface.
As films go, Scarface is memorable for an excess of bad accents, bad script-writing and bad ideas of how to remake a gangster movie. […]
November 15th, 2006 by iMonk
This post is important. If you keep up with my journey, read this because what is going on with my ministry to Chinese students is becoming a major chapter in the deconstruction of my American Evangelicalism.
American Christian.
You didn’t like that did you? I don’t like it either. “American Christian” sounds […]
April 8th, 2007 by iMonk
I’ve been opining about worship music for a long time. One of my favorite IM essays on the subject is “Looney Tunes: The Goofy Theology of Some Worship Leaders.”
But you don’t have to go to the extreme to find some fairly weird assertions about music and Christians. Take Rick Warren’s […]
March 15th, 2007 by iMonk
Hmmmm. He doesn’t look like he’s trying to be cool.
Is this the face of the controversial and misunderstood missional church leader we keep talking about? Could it be that “missional” leaders have been right there all along, but our hang-ups on the subjects of culturally compromised churches led by twenty-somethings […]
by Jennifer GoldPosted: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 9:21 (BST)Font Scale:A A AThe Christian Institute has welcomed the decision by Google to allow religious groups to place adverts on the issue of abortion after legal proceedings against the world’s biggest search engine were settled “on amicable terms”.The group took legal action against Google after it rejected […]
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