by Don Veinot | Feb 19, 2015 | Church History, Cults and Religions, Culture Driven Church, Darwinism, Evolution, Islam, Jihadist, Slavery
Conservatives and Evangelicals nearly lost their minds when, on February 5 at the National Prayer Breakfast, Barack Obama drew a moral equivalency between the ISIS beheadings and burnings of those ISIS captures with the Crusades, Inquisition, Jim Crow laws, etc. Hmmm....
by Don Veinot | Jan 29, 2015 | Apologetics, Church Fathers, Church History, Cults and Religions, Culture and Society, Islam, Jesus Seminar, John Dominic Crossan
Not long ago Barack Obama proclaimed, “ISIL is not Islamic.” Certainly he has a right to express his opinion, no matter how uninformed or perhaps emotionally informed he may be but that doesn’t make his declaration correct or accurate. I have always been intrigued by...
by Don Veinot | Nov 6, 2014 | Christ and the Church, Christian living, Church History, Culture and Society, Homosexuality, Scripture
As I write this we are nearing voting day. By the time it posts the election will be over and, most likely, barring hanging chads, miss programmed voting machines and run offs, the results will be known. Will liberals hold on to the political power or will...
by Pastor G. Richard Fisher | Aug 11, 2013 | Christ and the Church, Church History, MCOI Journal, mysticism, Panentheism, Roman Catholic, Spring 2010
(Originally printed in the Spring 2010 Issue of the MCOI Journal page 6) The entire world seems to be turning away from using rational understanding toward a reliance on mystical means as a basis for life.1Arthur Johnson, Faith Misguided, (Moody Press, Chicago...
by Jonathan Miles | Mar 7, 2013 | Christ and the Church, Church History, Culture and Society, Culture Driven Church, Discernment, Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, Liberal Theology, Scripture, Theology
Dear Reader, I was prepared to write this week about a really bad Abortion Argument on Salon.com. But it seems that stupid arguments must alas trump bad arguments. Self-proclaimed “thought leader” Steve McSwain decided to vent his frustration with...
by Don Veinot | Feb 14, 2013 | Abortion, Atheism, Church History, Culture and Society, Defend the Faith, Discernment, Homosexuality
At first some readers will this is another political diatribe but really the examples I will be using are for illustration of a communication problem which is growing in our nation and culture in not only the political but religious arena. It is the problem of...
On issues of doctrine, that have been put forward in the public eye: I have experienced(in my active heart and…
Spot on Don. If it looks like a dog, barks like a dog, smells like a dog and behaves like…
It is my understanding that none of the Chosen was written by Mormons. It's true that Jenkins consults with a…
Well this has aged well. Don Veinot - "We talk about it in our article, “The Chosen Dilemma” and Dallas…
'For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways..." Isaish 2 reminds…