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Sports and Christianity: How Should Christians Handle Competition?
A couple days ago, a friend pointed me to, “Sports Fanatics,” a Christianity Today article in which Shirl James Hoffman (author of the book, Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sports, from which the article is taken) argues that (mainly Evangelical) Christianity’s relationship with sports has ultimately been detrimental to the faith, with... »
Evangelicals, Scholarship, and Discrimination
Dan Wallace's recent post at Parchment and Pen on anti-Evangelical discrimination within the biblical studies community has caused a bit of a tempest in the biblioblog teacup. My thoughts... »
The Case for Early Marriage: Regnerus on the Evangelical Dilemma
If one is to be abstinent until marriage, why push marriage into the late twenties? Sociologist Mark Regnerus advocates and defends earlier marriage in the light of abstinence teaching, suggesting that the cultural shift towards later marriage is unreasonable and unwise. »
Great post on Evangelical polarization between social action and evangelism
Ben Byerly has just posted a summary of an article (by Ralph Winter) on the Evangelical polarization between social action and evangelism. It’s well worth the read. I thought this quote (from Winter) was especially outstanding: »