Yesterday I tweeted about how World Vision’s gift catalog promotes donations by giving the impression that you are able to buy farm animals and other items for families in poor countries — but it turns out that they often don’t buy the actual animals that the donor thought they purchased. Puzzling? Yes. Warren Throckmorton quotes a […]
A Highly Misguided Way to Talk About Jesus
A blog comments the other day (different blog) said this regarding Jesus’ compassion: Yes, Jesus was compassionate when confronted with a need, pausing to help the faithful (and in a few cases we know of, non-believers)…that was to show his authority and glory. I will be direct about this: this is a highly misguided way to talk […]
Anchor the Documentary: Exploring Christianity and Atheism
Several weeks ago, I had a great time being interviewed by Matt Pierce for his upcoming documentary Anchor. As Matt shared with me what he was doing, I thought his vision for the documentary was fantastic and deserves to be known more widely. Anchor is a documentary that explores the atheist and Christian perspectives on the […]
John Owen on Hebrews 13:17
It is becoming more and more common for people to point to Hebrews 13:17 as giving pastors and elders in the church an almost unlimited authority to tell other Christians what to do — not just in affairs of the church, but also in their personal lives. This is a complete misunderstanding of the passage. […]
God's Immediate Authority
I was reading recently some of Ludwig Ott’s Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, because I seek to understand other theological traditions (in this case, Roman Catholic) from their own primary sources and best teachers. In the section on the nature of the authority of the Pope, he states that the pope has immediate authority. “[The authority of the pope is] […]
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