Tag Archives: Christianity
Manhattan Declaration
If you are a Christian of any kind, flavor, brand, creed, persuasion, location, affiliation, category, group, school, society or denomination – then I encourage you to join me and thousands of others in signing the Manhattan Declaration:
Losing Dad
My father is dying. Those are words I did not expect to be saying and thinking and feeling at this point in my life. I am 55 and my father is 76 and in otherwise good health. Last week he … Continue reading
Spiritual Eroticism?
Scot McKnight has gone and done it again… he’s poking around with one of the evangelical church’s sacred cow’s – worship. Here’s what he says about what we typically do on Sunday morning: “Let’s call this was it is: spiritual … Continue reading
The Screwtape Letters
I had an opportunity to go and see FPA Theatre Company’s production of C.S. Lewis‘ “The Screwtape Letters” a week ago. It is playing at the old Mercury Theater at 3745 N. Southport in Chicago. It stars Max McLean (who … Continue reading
How Christianity Shaped the West
The November issue of Imprimis, the monthly newsletter of Hillsdale College, features an article adapted from a speech delivered by Dinesh D’Souza. Dinesh is a conservative author, thinker and speaker who worked as a policy analyst in the Reagan White … Continue reading
Breaking Down the Stereotypes
I am very proud of my family. Why? Yesterday, our local Oak Park paper, The Wednesday Journal, contained an article about my family’s involvement at Breakthrough Urban Ministries, in Chicago’s west side Garfield Park neighborhood [Link to Pouring Love, Breaking … Continue reading
Chapter 2: The Creation of Sacred Spaces and Objects
The Creation of Sacred Spaces and Objects Authors Frank Viola and George Barna record that a shift occurred in the late second and third centuries when Christians began reverencing their dead. Christians began to meet in two places… their homes … Continue reading