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Salt Lake City: My Visit to Temple Square
The first leg of my trip ended at Salt Lake City on Tuesday afternoon. It's the second time I've been there. When I was there before it was in August and the snowtop on the surrounding mountains was all melted whereas th… -
Rethinking Physical Purity
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless… -
Moderation and Religious Violence (Part Two)
The problem isn’t just a linguistic one. In the most extreme application it means treating socially unacceptable religious minorities as dangerous. Consider, for example, recent coverage of a group called the Apost… -
Moderation and Religious Violence (Part One)
At some point, we must recognize that the real battlefield in this world is not between Muslims and non-Muslims but between extremists of any stripe and the anti-extremists of all faiths. - Feisal Abdul Rauf, A Call to R… -
What Does it Mean to be Born Again?
I understand and basically agree with born again theology and am not writing about it but more generally about the cultural, political and personal connotations that the term born again carries. I am a Protestant Christi… -
Christians, Dating and Unbelievers
After reading the recent Revelife blog-post, "Engaged to an Unbeliever: I Didn't Know He Wasn't Christian," I found myself both saddened and thinking about the issue of inter-faith dating. Many of the comments disappoint… -
Nothing is Sound: The Relationship between Despair, Hope and Switchfoot
Like many other posters on this site, most likely I absolutely love Switchfoot's album The Beautiful Letdown. It contains an opening hook that I would rank right there with Sgt Peppers and it’s next to impossible n… -
Rich Mullins: A Model for Contemporary Christian Musicians
Christian music, in particular the CCM variety, gets a lot of flack -- much if not most of it deserved. It’s hard, for example, to think of Stryper’s “To Hell with the Devil” without snickering a… -
Christian Churches and Liberalization: the Decline of Religion?
About a month ago I was talking with a friend who said that they thought that the decline of religion was inevitable. Claims of this sort have been going around at least since the decline of state religions in the west… -
Closed for Christmas: Taking a Break and Honoring Holy Days
"Silent night, holy night, it is night the night of dear saviors birth." One of the things that I've enjoyed on Christmas through out the years is going driving down Ford Road in middle of the day and seeing all the…
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