Monthly Archives: September 2011

The Dangerous Prayer: Praying While Sinning

Temptation begins with, “I want to …” The second step is, “I shouldn’t …” The third step is “But I really do want to …” The fourth step is what determines the direction of my life, and it’s the great difference between Christianity and every other way of living. Every religion and every secular system …

September 30, 2011 – 9:13 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Bible, Life and Choices, The Faith | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (11)

Police Ban Bible in Christian Café?

Hat Tip to SteveK

September 27, 2011 – 12:15 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Religious Freedom, The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (10)

Freedom of Religion Watch

On my RSS news reader this morning: Professor Says Vanderbilt Suppressing Christian Student Groups Amid Shutdown Threats Priest barred from saying mass In England, Displaying Bible Verses May Be Against the Law Conscience, Coercion, and Healthcare Preventing Another Attack: International Religious Freedom On a related note: Paying for a Church You Don’t Believe In and …

September 27, 2011 – 10:14 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Bible, Life and Choices, Religions, The Faith | Tagged , , , , | Comments (9)

Pro-Choice Determinists

I was just wondering how many determinists—people who believe that human free will is an illusion, because everything is determined by physical law—would describe themselves as “pro-choice.”

September 26, 2011 – 10:13 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , | Comments (123)

Ed Stetzer from LifeWay Research On Campus Crusade’s Name Change

Ed Stetzer asks, Why do so many evangelicals believe someone like Glenn Beck rather than the trusted leadership of Campus Crusade? [From Ed Stetzer - A LifeWay Research blog on theology, missiology, missional church, church planting, church revlitalization, and innovation.]

September 21, 2011 – 12:49 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

From the Department of Double Standards Department

A student at York University in Ontario called for a professor’s firing after he said, “‘All Jews should be sterilized’ would be an example of an unacceptable and dangerous opinion.” Her reasoning reportedly went like this: Grunfeld said Tuesday she may have misunderstood the context and intent of Johnston’s remarks, but that fact is insignificant. …

September 20, 2011 – 1:46 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Comments (2)

Gregory S. Paul Again?! Unbelievable!

The infamous Gregory S. Paul study rears its disreputable head once again. When, oh when, oh when will this lousy research die its proper death? But here it is once again, on the Washington Post website, of all places! How often do we hear from religious apologists that lack of religious belief is responsible for …

September 20, 2011 – 12:23 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science, Religions | Tagged , , | Comments (5)

Books in Review: The Truth of the Soul of the Modern World

Dual Book Review The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization by Vishal Mangalwadi Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart     One of the New Atheists’ more childish conceits is that of secularism’s moral superiority over all that has come …

September 20, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Religions, The Faith | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (3)