Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
October 19, 2007

Willow Creek repents?

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

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 [...]


May 12, 2007

Book Review: _Me, Myself, & Bob_

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : popmedia

BOOK REVIEW:

Me, Myself, & Bob
by Phil Vischer
2006 - Nelson Books
ISBN: 0785222073
I am a Veggie Tales fan, and have been for darned near a decade. My kids were born & hit the video-watching phase right about the time that VT exploded in the late 1990s. VT were well-written, had a good message, great humor, and appealed [...]


April 12, 2006

The Slippery — But Oh-So-Soothing — Slope

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

Now, I’m not a huge fan of Chuck Colson or James Dobson. They get some things right, but they’re often way too methobapticostal for my tastes. Over at Cyberbrethren, Rev. McCain has a nice posting (titled Soothing Ourselves To Death) in which he points us to a great column by Colson — it’s a nice [...]


January 11, 2006

Does ‘Conservative’ = ‘Methobapticostal’?

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

I just received a catalog in the mail, trying to sell me on joining the American Compass (”The Conservative Alternative”) book club.
As background, I’m probably more libertarian in my political outlook, in that I believe that we’d be better off with less government & more personal responsibility, more local & less federal (which would include [...]