Teenage Mutant Christianity

On 27 August 2010, in Today's Preachers, by Peter

I ran across this article on CNN about the current religious trends of teenagers. Kenda Dean, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, has just written a book entitled, Almost Christian, where she says that teenagers have been served up a progressive, self-serving form of Christianity and it’s taking its toll. She says that this imposter [...]

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Congregations Gone Wild

On 11 August 2010, in Today's Preachers, by Peter

The New York Times has printed an Op-Ed piece, Congregations Gone Wild, by Jeffrey MacDonald, a minister in the United Church of Christ. MacDonald writes on the recent studies that show that American preachers are suffering from burnout, but says that the real problem is the pressure that congregations put on them to forsake their [...]

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A New Take on Crucifixion

On 2 July 2010, in Today's Preachers, by Peter

It’s funny. I just got to Galatians 3.13 (“he became a curse for us”) on my book on healing when I decided to take a break and cruise the net. First article? This one that says, Jesus Christ May Not Have Died on Cross. At first I thought it was another Geraldo Rivera story. But [...]

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Prophecy Tuesday

On 29 June 2010, in Today's Preachers, by Peter

I stopped going to hear Bible prophecy teachers sometime after 1988. That was supposed to be the year of the Day of the Lord. The logic was this: Israel became a nation in 1948,  Jesus had said, “This generation shall not pass until these things come to pass,” and the Bible’s time clock for generation [...]

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