by Don Veinot | Oct 17, 2013 | Abortion, Atheism, Church, Creationsim, Culture and Society, Defend the Faith, Evolution, Human Rights Violations, Slavery, Theology
With the great and growing cultural divide between Christians and non-Christians today, discerning between true and false claims is sometimes difficult. The New Atheists have certainly ramped up the rhetoric about the ages long conflict between science and...
by Jonathan Miles | Oct 10, 2013 | Christ and the Church, Church, Culture and Society, Defend the Faith, Politics
In my last post I defended Russell Moore’s claim that Christians in America are a Moral Majority no more. That is, we can no longer assume that the vast majority of Americans in fly-over country share our basic worldview. Moore has called for a change of tactic...
by Don Veinot | Jun 6, 2013 | Atheism, Christ and the Church, Church, Creationsim, Defend the Faith, Evolution, Resurrection
There are reasons for unbelief and then there are excuses to remain in unbelief. Unbelief can apply to lots of different things. For example, I am in unbelief that the universe popped into existence from nothing, by nothing for no apparent reason. My unbelief is based...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 21, 2013 | Culture and Society, Defend the Faith, Hinduism, New Age, Vampires, Wicca
(Originally printed in the Winter/Spring 2013 Issue of the MCOI Journal) Some years ago a youth pastor from a nearby community called me. He was concerned about a large group of Vampires that gathered regularly in his town’s park. He thought there were perhaps 300 and...
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...
by Don Veinot | Jan 31, 2013 | Abortion, Apologetics, Atheism, Christ and the Church, Culture and Society, Defend the Faith, Homosexuality, ProLife, Scripture
I became a Christian in the mid-1970s. The winds of cultural change were already evident in good old America. Even though it had long been a nation which operated on Judeo/Christian morals and values, Progressivism had been doing its work slowly in universities and...