Unpacking the Pew Study and Evangelicals’ View of Pathways to Eternal Life

The statistic that is getting a lot of airtime on the blogs is that 57% of evangelical Christians said that many religions can lead to eternal life (which is actually one of the lowest percentages among groups in the study).

Most people are drawing their conclusions based on this chart. Based on this chart how would [...]

Pew Research Study on Religion in America and Some Notes on Interpreting Data

Philip and Jordan emailed me about this study yesterday and it looks like Dr. Three Sticks beat me to it. I am still digesting it and have requested some data from Pew (which I am guessing they have a policy not to release) to do a little analysis of my own on the numbers. Here [...]

Thank You for 100,000 Pageviews and an Anniversary

Just wanted to say thanks. We passed over the 100,000 page view mark this month! I couldn’t do it without you. Well, I could but I would have to do an awful lot of clicking! Next month marks the two year anniversary of this blog. Thank you for all your thoughts, comments, emails, support, encouragement, [...]

What is the Hardest Thing About Being a Christian?

I think for me it is really learning how to die to self and live for God.  Wait a minute, doesn’t that sum up the entirety of being a Christian? Maybe I have trouble with the whole thing as I continue to learn how not to let my self get in the way. Maybe for [...]

How Do Rising Gas Prices Affect the Church?

First,
I am happy to say that even if gas hit $100 a gallon that the church would live on. At the same time the way we have structured the church - large corporate gatherings distant from many of those who attend…rising oil and gas prices can start to be reflected in the church in a [...]

Pelosi and the Democrats Have a Plan to Lower Gas Prices

And now for something completely different…
The following is from TheHill.com
“In a press release dated April 24, 2006, Pelosi said, “Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas [...]

Scriptural Repertoires - Gaining an Appreciation for a Broader Range of Scriptures

When I was in high school I had an English teacher who was preparing us for the AP English examination. She would teach us about essay writing and literature and would say, “Put this in your repertoire.” She would constantly give us handouts and I finally got a manila folder and labeled it “Repertoire Incarnate” [...]

Putting God in the Box of Logic

I think we have all figured out by now that you cannot put God in a box. Have you ever thought about the fact that out of the 13 or so billion people who have ever lived over thousands and thousands of years of human history less than 1 billion of them were influenced by [...]

N.T. Wright on Attempting to Restore New Testament Christianity

“Many writers…have seen the religious experience of the early Christians…as the normative element within Christianity. This has the apparent advantage that it enables one to conduct the ’scientific’, supposedly ‘objective’ study of early Christian religion and theology, with the knowledge that when one has found them one is in touch with the real model of [...]

U2 Gets to Sing with George Pendergrass

U2 was so lucky to get to perform with George Pendergrass who used to sing with Acappella. You would be hard pressed to meet a nicer man than George Pendergrass. Bono joins the ranks of those lucky enough to get to sing with such a talented singer. This is I Still Haven’t Found What I’m [...]