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A Game Plan for Life

Can you imagine kissing one person your entire life, and your lips would never kiss another? Does that sound incredibly romantic to you, or incredibly silly? The story is told by a man who did just that in his latest …
Church Book Burning, Bibles Included

As we approach Halloween, many of us are planning special events. Perhaps a friend is holding a costume party, or maybe you're just planning to hand out candy to the local children. One church in North Carolina would…
Is it Okay for a Christian Author to Write a Murder Mystery?

So I have a quandary, I can't really decide what to do about it. I write, quite a bit, and the other day I got this absolutely brilliant idea for a book. I even started to write it out for a rough draft, but then I s…
Teacher: Read This Book That Offends You or Drop the Class

Last week, a student in my Literature class dropped out because she didn't want to read a controversial book that the teacher had assigned. The book was classified under gay and lesbian literature. The novel revolved…
Stephen Colbert vs. Bart Ehrman - Biblical Contradictions and Jesus' Divinity

by mr palm On Thursday's episode of the political/news satire show The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert hosted Bart Ehrman, author of the new book Jesus, Interrupted. In his book, Ehrman discusses the ways that he beli…
What's a Good Book for Getting Back Into Jesus?

A friend of mine has recently decided she wants to give Jesus another look after dismissing him for many years. In short she wants a book that is the equivalent of Christianity for Dummies. Of course, I could never give …
Is Modern Christianity Devaluing Faith?

"In our time nobody is content to stop with faith but wants to go further...In those old days it was different, then faith was a task for a whole lifetime, because it was assumed that dexterity in faith is not acquired …
Do Ministers and Scholars Keep Biblical Knowledge to Themselves?

There's a new book by Bart D. Ehrman (Misquoting Jesus) on the shelves titled Jesus, Interrupted. Here's an excerpt of his opening remarks: Scholars have made significant progress in understanding the Bible over the …
Aslan and Jesus: Not Tamed, But Good

Several times over the last week I've been reminded of a C. S. Lewis quote that related to my last post about how people prefer a nice fluffy wish-granting pushover "God" to the holy God of the Bible. In The Lion, the…
Do You Pray Like Your Local McDonald's?

by mr maple This is a doctored version of a famous manuscript: Many people never learned how to pray, an equal number believe they don't have the time, and some define praying as something to do before heating up …