DUMP THE CHURCH—IT HURT ME!
George Santayana, the Spanish-born American author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is famous for his quip, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Such is the case with the recurring cry of every…
ARE PROTESTANTS TO BLAME FOR OUR SECULAR COUNTRY?
Brad Gregory is a professor of European history at Notre Dame. He’s also an intellectual iconoclast. In his recent book, Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World, Gregory argues that…
AMERICAN CHURCHES AND SHOW BUSINESS
Stanley Hauerwas is a Methodist theologian at Duke University Divinity School. He is an insightful writer on Christianity and cultural issues. In a recent article entitled “The End of American Protestantism,” Hauerwas writes this about American Christianity: “More Americans may…
The Juvenilization of American Christianity
I recently read a fascinating book entitled, The Juvenilization of American Christianity by Thomas Bergler (a professor at Huntington University in Indiana). Bergler is a church historian with a specialization in youth ministry. The book covers the American cultural shift…
AMERICAN CHRISTIANS AND THE SABBATH, PART 1
This is the first of three blogs on a critical subject that is increasingly ignored in Western culture – the Sabbath. My goal is to help genuine believers in Jesus to realize what a precious gift the Sabbath is for…
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