by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 12, 2020 | Agnostic, Atheism, Atheist, Civil War, History, Middle America, Morality, Nationalism and Faith, Post Christian, Socialism
Fourteen years ago, right after the Bush v Kerry election, we wrote a journal article about the state of our nation, specifically about the yawning divide that had opened up between the two parties, or more accurately, between two dueling visions of what our nation...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 13, 2020 | Abortion, Adultery, CriticalThinkingNotCriticalTheory, Homosexuality, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Racism, Salvation, Sin, Slavery, Social Justice, Social tyranny, Socialism, White Fragility
Young religious legal experts were always asking Jesus questions, trying to stump or trap him into an answer they could use against him in some way. Kind of like our modern-day press corps, except that these 1st century Jewish young guns were probably better educated....
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 6, 2020 | #Blacklivesmatter, ANTIFA, Atheism, Authoritarian, bigotry, Black Liberation Theology, Black Lives are Sacred, Evangelical Left, John Dewey, Liberal Left, Marxism, Persecution, Politics, Post Christian, Racism, Socialism
Standing on conviction can be an intimidating and scary proposition. Publicly standing on an unpopular conviction, in the woke “cancel culture” of our day can perhaps drive even the braver hearts to seek shelter. There is much hatred in the land today aimed at...
by Joy A Veinot | May 7, 2020 | Abortion, Apologetics, Global Warming, Globalism, Humanism, Humanist Manifest, Intolerance, MCOI Journal, Morality, Paganism, Parliament of the Worlds Religions, Perennialism, Planetary Humanism, Relativism, Social Justice, Social tyranny, Socialism, Tolerance, Winter 2000
(This originally appeared in the Winter 2000 edition of the MCOI Journal) By Sarah Flashing & Joy A. Veinot Many people faced the new Millennium with a sense of dread and apprehension. What would happen to the world in our new century? War? Famine? Economic...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 23, 2019 | Deity of Christ, Gnostic, Jesus Seminar, John Dominic Crossan, Liberal Left, Liberal Theology, Morality, Socialism
In his 1923 book Christianity & Liberalism, J. Gresham Machen asserts that liberalism is another religion unto itself, far removed from the biblical Christianity out of which it came. We think he makes some good points. In Chapter Two of his book, he takes the...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 15, 2018 | False Teacher, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus - Michael the Archangel, Jesus a Buddhist, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Socialism, Yoga
“Weird But True: If You Put Your Ear Up To The New Joel Osteen Book, You Can Hear Dozens Of Tortured Bible Verses Screaming In Pain” is but one of the many headlines and invented stories on the satirical website, The Babylon Bee. Some people love satire, and some hate...