Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1148

“Historical criticism and historicity”

    From somewhere in the eastern hemisphere, a sleep-deprived Bill Hamblin issues a challenge:   http://www.patheos.com/blogs/enigmati...   Personally, I would love to see a direct, civil, substantive exchange between the two.   For one thing, I think there’s been some equivocating and miscommunication, and I would really like to see things cleared up.  Though [Read More...]

“Why don’t American Protestants care that Middle Eastern Christians are dying?”

    A strongly worded complaint from a mainstream Protestant:   http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/20...    

“Church donates ‘Meet the Mormons’ proceeds to the American Red Cross”

      True to their natures, I’m afraid, some particularly cynical critics of Mormonism predicted that the Church would never give a dime to the American Red Cross, notwithstanding its public statements that it would do so.   But, of course, it’s now given the money, just as no normal, reasonable person ever doubted [Read More...]

What is “goodness”?

    “Goodness is about character — integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.” Dennis Prager

“The 12 Principles of Conservatism”

    The so-called “Sharon Statement,” drafted by M. Stanton Evans (who died on 3 March, at the age of eighty), was adopted at the meeting that founded Young Americans for Freedom in 1960.  The meeting took place at the Sharon, Connecticut, estate of the late William F. Buckley Jr.  Hence the name.  Apart from [Read More...]

New Testament 102

    Matthew 10:34-36 Luke 12:51-53   The fruit of the Gospel is peace.  But the simple fact is that encounters between Zion and Babylon are often accompanied by friction — and that, unless and until one or the other surrenders, this is likely to continue.  And Zion won’t surrender.   That said, we must do all [Read More...]

“Apostasy in Saudi Arabia and Utah”

      The eminent Austrian-born American sociologist Peter Berger takes a (somewhat curious) look:   http://www.the-american-interest.com/...    

America’s first lesbian “throuple”!

    Colbert, of course, thinks it’s a joke, and yucks it up to the max before his fawning and uncritical audience, who’re no doubt eager to be seen as thoroughly au courant and not to be regarded as narrow-minded provincial rubes.  He implicitly suggests that anybody who might regard this kind of thing as [Read More...]

“Do we pay too much attention to radical Islam?”

    For all my concern about the evils of radical Islam, including the metastasizing nihilistic death cult calling itself the “Islamic State” — ISIS now has affiliates and imitators in Libya, from which it’s fantasizing about an assault on Rome, as well as in Syria and Iraq, and there are reports that the murderous [Read More...]

Slippery Slope Installment 7346:, or, O Brave New World!

    In which elements of the United Methodist Church in Alabama (!) abandon even the pretext of a traditional Christian sexual ethic, now that marriage is being redefined:   http://juicyecumenism.com/2015/03/10/...