Purify Your Bride

For all the talk of tying McCain to Bush 43 I am starting to think he is much closer to Bush 41. Both Bush Sr and McCain had long records of being moderate Republicans. They both ran against the president they were attempting to succeed. Bush ran against Reagan and called his tax cuts voodoo [...]

She makes an an awful statement about abortion and Catholic tradition on Meet the Press. So far we have 3 responses from bishops. Abp Chaput in Denver, Abp Weurl in Washington and Cardinal Rigali speaking for the USCCB. Amy and Rocco have details.
I just love it when the bishops do this kind of thing. Teaching [...]

I have been having a debate on Dave Armstrong’s blog about creation and evolution. It occurs to me that this controversy is another example of a disputed biblical interpretation that we must be sure to get right. I have written before that the issue of female ordination was one such issue. That is that no [...]

John McCain is a man of average intelligence. He graduated 494th out of a class of 499 at West Point. He basically got in based on his father’s pull. Still he slogged through. Barak Obama is a man of extraordinary intelligence. He excelled at some of the hardest schools in the country. So when McCain [...]

Just when you thought nobody would ever debated contraception again it comes back. Planned Parenthood is very worried about a proposal to change the definition of abortion to include every pregnancy terminated after conception rather than the current definition of after implantation. What stikes me the most is how the whole question is framed around [...]

The more I think about the danger of not teaching all the key truths of the faith the more I realize the importance of liturgy. If we include the vital doctrines in the liturgical texts and include all the doctrines n the lectionary readings then we will avoid the pitfalls that we are seeing in [...]

The abortion positions of both McCain and Obama are starting to come to the mushy middle. Obama has denied the much repeated charge that he voted to allow babies to be kill even after they had somehow survived an abortion. There will be a ton of allegations going back and forth about different versions of [...]

I was thinking about how difficult it is to get men involved in matters of faith. It seems strange to me because there are so many men in the Christian blog world. I wonder why that is. It seems to me a big part of that is the disagreements. On blogs it is OK to [...]

I was reading an exchange of sorts between pastor Bob DeWaay and Rick Warren:
I asked him, for instance, about the criticism that he offers a sort of glib, new age Christianity. Rev. Bob DeWaay, author of a book criticizing Warren’s approach, says “the Bible’s theme is about redemption and atonement, not finding meaning and solving [...]

One of the reasons people find it hard to believe in God is the idea that a good God would send people to hell. Truth be told, it is not that amazing people would end up in hell. The amazing part is that anyone is saved from hell. The problem is people don’t grasp sin. [...]

I got a loan of his Everything Is Spiritual DVD from my mom and dad. It is quite interesting. He makes some very good arguments as to why creation points to a God. They are not knew to him but he presents them quite effectively. He has learned enough science to pretend he knows a [...]

The Christian religion is based on the idea that Jesus brought us the gospel. That while He was on earth He gave us revelation about God. That is the central reason why Christians can claim to know more about God. God came to us in the form of Jesus and told us. That is why [...]

Keeping going on his blog I commented on his very interesting post about the “God=shaped vacuum”:
This post begins with a quote and link to a London Times story that you need to read. Seems the Church of England is trying to find ways to tap into the spiritual interests of England’s church-abandoning younger generations. After [...]

Heather King has written a book. Amy Welborn gave it a great review. Internet monk reviewed the review and linked an interview with her. All of this got me thinking. She talks about faith and reason:
Well, I don’t think you come to faith through reasoning. At least I didn’t. I “came to believe” first, [...]