Territorial Bloggings

I’m a week behind in pointing y’all t this, but Rev. Chaz Lehmann has, in his post An open letter to Orthodox commenters on Lutheran blogs, done a great job of concisely laying out why going East isn’t truly a viable and (dare I say) orthodox option for Lutherans.
On a certain level, I can understand [...]

Per this blog & this article at Christianity Today, Bill Hybels over at Willow Creek states “We made a mistake.”
Wow.
I’ve long thought the theology of pop-American Evangelicalism (as defined by the “seeker sensitive” mantra of Church-Growthers like Bill Hybels’ Willow Creek & Rick Warren’s Saddleback churches) to be deficient, dangerous, and outright wrong. Thus, it’s [...]

Well, now, isn’t this — Letters Reveal Mother Teresa’s Secret — interesting?
A quote: “…it has emerged that Mother Teresa was so doubtful of her own faith that she feared being a hypocrite…”
It strikes me as fascinating both because it reveals the ways in which individual faith truly is a battleground for the forces of [...]

Fascinating statistics in this article/paper on the levels of “organic atheism” & the like.
Somehow I think Bp. Giertz would be aggrieved by Sweden’s #1 ranking, and Scandinavia taking 3 of the top 4 spots…
The top 10:
1. Sweden (up to 85% non-believer, atheist, agnostic)
2. Vietnam
3. Denmark
4. Norway
5. Japan
6. Czech Republic
7. Finland
8. France
9. South Korea
10. Estonia (up [...]