admin | August 15, 2010
Article in the paper, yesterday, announced, “Author Anne Rice tells why she quit Christianity”. No headline could be further from the truth. Anne didn’t tell us why she was quitting Christianity. In an interview with an LA Times reporter, she simply told us some of her reasons for no longer attending the Catholic Church – [...]
admin | April 15, 2010
A parable, said a pastor I know, is a symbolically fictitious narrative about life which is intended to teach us some truth or moral about life. Jesus used them frequently in his teaching. I think he’d like this one. If he was telling to us in this era. The Parable: “A certain widower, a respected [...]
admin | March 30, 2010
A so-called “Christian Militia”, known as Huttarees, justify their taking up arms (big-time arms) and plotting to incite a broader insurrection against the government by assassinating policemen and then blowing up their fellows and families at funerals. Their theology, in this, is that Jesus wants them to protect themselves and other believers during the Tribulation [...]
admin | December 26, 2009
Most Churches, and certainly all I’ve ever attended, preach a lot about the importance of forgiving – forgiving anyone and everyone who has aroused our ire or resentment. Considering the number of times we are told, through the New Testament, one wonders why we should even need to be told about it again from the [...]