Territorial Bloggings
A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
Willow Creek repents?
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 [...]
Book Review: _Me, Myself, & Bob_
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 [...]
The Slippery — But Oh-So-Soothing — Slope
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 [...]
Does ‘Conservative’ = ‘Methobapticostal’?
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 [...]


