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Ten Questions: Homosexuality and the Christian Response

By The Closet Calvinist Homosexuality is sadly a very common topic these days. Ten or eleven states have legalized gay marriage, the Boy Scouts of America is sitting on a fence waiting on opinion polls to decide if th…
Does God Forgive Christians who Commit Suicide?

We all have heard of or known someone who committed suicide. This is a tragedy and can almost always be prevented. However there are certain circumstances where a tragedy is happening in that person's life, and they feel…
Vampire Author Rice Promotes Politically Correct God

Society holds a certain fascination with evil. As the Halloween holiday approaches and shops are filled with ghoulish decorations and occult-fiction books and movies skyrocket in popularity, this fascination is a lot mor…
Liking Christ But Not Church: Does It Make Sense?

By T.G. Blankenship at The Gethsemane Blog A lot of people, especially where I live in the Pacific Northwest, tend to make claims like "I do Christ but I don't do the Church" or "I have a relationship with God but I don'…
Why I Take Issue With "Christian" Joe Biden Meme

In the wake of this week's vice-presidential debates, a new wave of memes have come out on Facebook. Although I usually roll my eyes at the overly-simplified worldviews that most of these memes espouse, as well as the f…
It's Wrong to Hate the Sinner

Although I could be setting myself up for an argument, I feel the need to say that what most Christians who hate a certain people group or sexuality forget is that “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory o…
The Mystery of Grace

By Dave Burchett Re-posted from theFish.com I think a lot about the church. When you write a book called “When Bad Christians Happen to Good People” you tend to hear from angry and wounded churchgoers. I have…
Hearsay: Facing the Judgment of Others, and Ourselves

How much do we really know? It is easy to take hearsay about some other person, or nation, culture or religion at face value, often without feeling the need to check up on it. I know that I am guilty of it, more often…
Covert Damage: Christians, Homosexuals and the Harm of Hate

Here's what I saw today that got this post going: On the drive to Niagara Falls last Saturday, Jen, Morgan, and I had been talking about gender, sexuality, and religion, as we sometimes have when we've been together.…
Origen and How Christians Make The Best Soldiers

By T.G. Blankenship at The Gethsemane Blog There was an early Church Father named Origen (184-254 AD). He was a scholar, theologian, and writer in Alexandria. He subscribed to a few notions than the Church does n…