Examining Faith » Archive for August 2008
10 Signs That You Might be a Fundamentalist
Fundamentalism is a hot topic. Many folks have been astonished at the level of evil perpetrated by Islamic fundamentalists, the most notable example being the events of 9/11. Those events are indelibly etched on the American psyche. Recently, news stories of the fall of Ted Haggard, a prominent evangelical, have attracted attention. After years of railing against homosexuality and assorted other sins, Haggard, president of …
August 30th, 2008
Straitjackets on Campus
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San Jose City College professor June Sheldon was recently fired for expressing an alternative view on the causes of homosexuality and lesbianism. If all it takes to end a teaching career is one brief, evidence-based foray outside the narrow boundaries of politically correctness, freedom will vanish from college campuses.
Related Reading:
Mere ChristianityA forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief that has become one of the most popular …
August 30th, 2008
Young Nuns
The Vatican reported that the number of Catholics in religious orders around the world continued to decline. In the latest figures for 2006, there were just over 945,555 monks and nuns, down about 7,555 from the year before. The overwhelming majority, 753,555, about 80 percent, were women. Around the U.S. the number of nuns has also been going down, and their average age rising. Watch …
August 30th, 2008
Intolerance: A Christian Virtue
Popular opinion in these early years of the twenty-first century has assailed our minds with “politically correct” sentiment. In keeping with this viewpoint a garbage man ought to be dubbed a “sanitation engineer” and a short person is not short he is “vertically challenged.” Even the term thief might offend so we should adopt the more tolerant “ethically disoriented.” This paradigm bares its true farcical …
August 17th, 2008
