by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 9, 2015 | Christian living, Culture and Society, Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, Homosexuality, Liberal Theology, Marriage, Paganism, Political Correctness
Last week, Jonathon began our discussion on Christianity, Homosexuality and Rome with Somebody Blew Up Alderaan! Now What? As western culture, both here and abroad, continues to abandon its Christian roots, it may be helpful to consider that we are really headed back...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 23, 2015 | Christ and the Church, Cults and Religions, Culture and Society, Emerging Church, Homosexuality, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, Paganism, Pedophilia, Political Correctness, Wicca
When we think of missionaries, we tend to think in terms of PLACE. Missionaries go places, like foreign lands, don’t they? We call them “mission fields”. They exist in exotic faraway places like Zaire, Ghana, Bolivia and many other “mission fields.” But still, they...
by Jonathan Miles | Mar 27, 2014 | Christian living, Church, Culture and Society, Discernment, Emerging Church
I have always liked Mark Driscoll, pastor of the Mars Hill mega church. I read his Confessions of a Reformission Rev and I liked the angry young prophet who built a church in one of the most secular areas in the country. I liked his no-nonsense style. I liked him even...
by Don Veinot | Oct 3, 2013 | Christ and the Church, Church, Culture and Society, Culture Driven Church, Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, Homosexuality, Liberal Theology, Rick Warren, Social Justice, Socialism, Willow Creek Community Church
I have to admit I have been very much drawn to want to comment on the healthcare/government shutdown this week but steeled myself against jumping in as little more than one more noisy voice in the din and clatter of 2 seemingly armed camps trying to commit politicide....
by Jonathan Miles | Sep 26, 2013 | Abortion, Christ and the Church, Church, Culture and Society, Emerging Church, Homosexuality, Infanticide, Politics, ProLife
These days, I’ve been see-sawing between emotions with intensity of a jack-rabbit on meth. I’m concerned about the tone in the media. I’m concerned that the pope is being misquoted. I’m concerned about florists and photographers in Arizona who...
by Don Veinot | Aug 8, 2013 | Christ and the Church, Church, Culture and Society, Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, Liberal Theology, Social Justice
In 2007 Lauren Caitlin Upton became national news and an Internet draw due (78 million views) to her response to a question in the 2007 Miss South Carolina Teen USA pageant. Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why...
