Bill Pratt | December 18, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt As 2010 comes to a close, we’re going to re-post the most popular blog posts of the year. Some of you who have joined our blog throughout the year may have missed these posts, so for the next couple of weeks, look out for these “greatest hits” as we count down [...]
Bill Pratt | December 17, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Wednesday, we introduced the question of whether Christians should celebrate Christmas, and today we finish answering the question. What about Santa Claus? Are we deceiving our children by letting them believe in Santa Claus? It turns out that the origin of Santa Claus may actually be historical. CRI explains: “The name [...]
Bill Pratt | December 15, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt There are many reasons why a Christian may not want to celebrate Christmas: it’s too commercial, it encourages greediness, it focuses too much on Santa Claus. I want to consider another reason, which is that Christmas is based on pagan beliefs and influences, and that if we celebrate Christmas, we are [...]
Darrell | December 13, 2010
Post Author: Darrell I recently spent some time on a Christian Facebook page that ministers to Mormons. It is mostly made up of ex-Mormon Christians who feel very strongly about their faith and want to reach out to Mormons. They write articles explaining the differences between Traditional Christianity and Mormonism and the problems with Mormon Theology [...]
Bill Pratt | December 10, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt You would think this question would be pretty easy to answer because the gospel message is something that Christians talk about all the time. However, it is difficult to find the gospel explained in one place within the Bible. There is, however, one passage where the gospel is defined, and that [...]
Bill Pratt | December 8, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Christians assert that God is the only source of morality. Wanting to reject this assertion, atheists sometimes offer a counter-argument which claims to invalidate the Christian God as the source of morality. The challenge is often referred to as the Euthyphro Dilemma because it was first raised in Plato’s dialogue Euthyphro. [...]
Bill Pratt | December 6, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt This video was forwarded to me by my friend James Rountree. What a nice way to start off your week. The spontaneous singing and looks on people’s faces are precious. Enjoy!
Bill Pratt | December 3, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt (re-posted from last year) New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III has written a brief article that discusses the birth narrative as conveyed in Luke 2. Witherington reminds us that the modern version of Jesus’ birth is not exactly faithful to the biblical account. “Like works of art that have been lacquered [...]
Bill Pratt | December 1, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt I was listening to the “This American Life” podcast today and heard something that intrigued me. The podcast recounted the story of a few NPR reporters who bought a mortgage-backed security (MBS) earlier this year. This particular MBS is a kind of bond that bundles some 2,000 mortgages together and pays [...]
