Sen. Barack Obama gave this speech yesterday, March 18th, in Philadelphia. This was supposed to be a speech on race, meant to address comments recently made by his former pastor in Chicago, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and also to address the politics of race in this election. Race has been a dividing point in [...]
Scientists Take New Step Toward Man-Made Life
I ran across this article in the New York Times and thought that it could provoke some interesting discussion.
The implications of this article are potentially enormous for humans, and the Christian church will no doubt have an opinion on this matter. The idea that humans are capable of [...]
I am starting this thread with a fairly good idea about where it will go, but what the heck (or can you say hell at Epinoia?). I have been wondering recently about this subject, and have read some very conservative and very liberal viewpoints on the subject. The very conservative viewpoints suggest that [...]
I know that all of us here are trying to support one another in every way. We talk openly and candidly about things that are very important to us.
Well, I am counting on that support (whether or not you can make the show), and I would love your prayers and encouragement.
My band, Holding Out, [...]
BELIEF
Is there anyone who
Ever remembers changing their mind from
The paint on a sign?
Is there anyone who really recalls
Ever breaking rank at all
For something someone yelled real loud one time?
What seems to be, at least from my observation of our culture (both as a whole and the Christian sub-culture) is that there is a pervasive lack of inspiration. Potentially due to the bombardment from all angles of the media, peer groups, family and other social institutions, of what is important, we feel helpless [...]
I have not posted in awhile, because I have felt lame. I have felt as though the words just won’t come together, and the ideas seem so random that there is nothing cohesive about them. I have felt unsure of everything. But, I still feel like I must write.
The title of this post might be completely misleading. I don’t really think that there is any difference in the two, but for the sake of this discussion, I am going to suggest that Divine Inspiration is the impetus to write based on an experience of God, while Divinely Inspired means that these are [...]
What religious people, Christians included, fail to realize, is what it is that they are doing when they say the things they say, and do the things they do. Religion serves as a multitude of different things to different people. Primarily it serves as an entrance into participation in story and ritual. [...]
