by Don Veinot | Jul 26, 2012 | Brian McLaren, Culture and Society, Evangelical Left, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Politics, Psychology
The news has been filled to brimming with fodder for blogs the last couple of weeks. Conservatives went into a feeding frenzy with the declaration by Barack Obama: If You’ve Got A Business, You Didn’t Build That . His claim isn’t surprising in light of his...
by Don Veinot | Dec 1, 2011 | Brian McLaren, Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, General, Politics, Rob Bell, Socialism
Is the celebration of the national holiday called Thanksgiving a time of reflection and thanksgiving or merely the sound of the starting pistol in the race for buying stuff? The answers to this question vary and will be wide ranging. For some these days will be very...
by Don Veinot | Jul 21, 2011 | Brian McLaren, Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, Liberal Theology, Rob Bell, Socialism, Theology
Just for fun, let’s put Crossan’s method to work on Mark Twain’s book, Huckleberry Finn. If we merely read the book at face value, we will easily understand that it is the story of a boy that floats down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave named Jim....
by Don Veinot | Jun 2, 2011 | Brian McLaren, Homosexuality, Liberal Theology, Rick Warren, Willow Creek Community Church
Ah, spring is in full swing. Flowers are in bloom, the trees have leaves, lawns are in full growth and, the dreaded mosquito is on the scene. Even as I thought about this last week, Joy and I were listening to an audio book while on our route to and from California....
by Jonathan Miles | Nov 11, 2010 | Brian McLaren, Culture Driven Church, Economy, Evangelical Left, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Politics, Theology
Would Jesus be involved in politics? What would Jesus say about the TEA Party? That is one of the questions we have been kicking around here as we are talking about the politically incorrect Jesus. Many groups have differing views on this and of course reasoning that...
by Don Veinot | Aug 12, 2010 | Apologetics, Brian McLaren, General, Homosexuality, Politics
Since 1971, homosexual activists have worked hard in the courts trying to have marriage redefined. In our 2006 article Whose on First … First? we looked at the history of marriage and the law in the United States. Prior to 1971 the challenge to traditional marriage...
