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Category Archives: Fundamentalism

How should Christians vote in November?

The 56th American presidential election is scheduled for Tuesday, November 4, 2008; and nearly everyone has an opinion about Barack Obama and John McCain, the apparent nominees for the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively. Quite a diverse field of third party contenders are lining up as well, hoping to snag a few votes and produce [...]

Posted 27 June 2008 § Daily Scribe § Personal § Politics ‡ Comments (11) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,

Are we living Christianity, or just studying it?

Flashing lights and buzzers go off inside my head whenever I see the name, Søren Kierkegaard. It’s part of my fundamentalist training that instinctively and quickly manifests itself like Jason Bourne’s martial arts skills in The Bourne Identity. In the early eighties when I began my seminary training there were two opposing factions: the inerrantists [...]

Posted 24 December 2007 § Christian life § Daily Scribe § Teaching/Preaching ‡ Comments (13) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Fundamentalism and biblical authority

I don’t know much about Baptist Blogger, Ben Cole, but he’s really “spot on” (as they say here in Britain) regarding the hypocrisy of those who shout the loudest about the inerrancy and authority of Scripture, yet use the Bible as a springboard or proof-text for their own moralistic and legalistic rants. In part six [...]

Posted 13 June 2007 § North America § Southern Baptists § Teaching/Preaching ‡ Comments (4) °