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A Bar Called Church
When I first moved to Boston some thirty years ago, The Boston Globe prided itself on being the most liberal newspaper in the country. A joke I heard about then: What will be the very last headline of the Globe? … Continue reading
Posted in Pentecostalism
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What is the West? And Where Is It?
For some decades now there has been a debate over the alleged Western bias of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the multitude of activities that have emanated from it. The debate has typically focused on the priority of … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, Secularism, The West, United States
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Guidelines for Gynecologists and Biblical Scholars
How can a gynecologist manage to have sex? Presumably by resolutely switching from one mindset to another. How can a New Testament scholar manage to be a Christian? Presumably by a similar exercise of mental compartmentalization. I don’t know whether … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Evangelicalism
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La Santa Muerte
In The Christian Century of March 22, 2011, there is an interesting column by Philip Jenkins, the historian who more than anyone else has drawn our attention to the demographic shift of Christianity to the developing countries of Latin America, … Continue reading
Posted in Protestantism, South America, Supernatural
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