Let’s think for a moment about freedom. Christian and Atheist Quests for Freedom Christians read from their book that “the truth will set you free,” meaning of course the truth of Christ’s redemption of us before a just God. We aspire to the good as we aspire to communion with the One who is good. […]
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Darn Lazy Men
Nice-seeming Feminism An exchange which can serve as a State-of-the-Union for feminism of the soft, non-gender-bending variety can be found in an interview of Melinda Gates on Marketplace, a program affiliated with NPR. Her topic: balancing the burden of unpaid work. According to Mrs. Gates, women do an outsized portion of the household chores, both in poor […]
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Doctrine “Religiosity” means the traditions that we tend to put in place of genuine relationship to God. “Religion,” though, should not be as much a pejorative as it seems to be for many people today. At heart it just means collective worship of God on shared ideas of who God is. So it implies doctrines, […]
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The jump to materialism Here’s a curious phenomenon. Many Americans today come from a Christian background but become disaffected by it, for one reason or another, and then find “permission” in the culture to reject it altogether, saying they’re now atheists. Didn’t they skip a step? If we’re to come off the claims of Christianity […]
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