Sentences with phrase «writing about christianity»

I thought all of the hipster bloggers used a few curse words when writing about Christianity to show the secular world (their audience) how edgy and cool they are?!

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Making a judgement about a faith, be it Christianity or Islam, on the basis of a few extremists has about the same logical errancy as saying evolution is false because Hitler's murderous race purification rampage was fueled by his study of Darwin's theory, a truth written by Hitler himself.

Four years ago, I wrote about the case of Abdul Rahman, an Afghan convert to Christianity who was charged with apostasy (punishable by execution under Islamic law).

Writing in Commonweal, he takes on the favored shibboleths of those who contend that Christianity «privileges» the male, and along the way has some important things to say about movements among Christian men such as Promise Keepers.

Write an article in the same tone about christianity or islam and people would go out of their minds!!

I feel like they wanted to stop the spread of Christianity at that time, so anyone who wrote about Jesus may have been punished in the same way.

Some historians, such as Jonathan Phillips or Thomas Asbridge, have even written books for a general audience, seeking to bridge the gap between what historians know and what most people think about Christianity's holy wars.

If it doesn't exist why write about it... Many atheist's who are authors inspire Christianity some spending all their time trying to make others deny Christ.

Why did you decide to write about this topic of Christianity in Japan?I've lived in Japan for 25 years and had a lot of culture shocks.

• Alister McGrath, promoting his critique of Dawkins» book The God Delusion, writes in the Daily Mail about his own return to Christianity (having been brought up a Protestant in Northern Ireland) whilst studying science at Oxford.

Thomas Day is writing about the culture of American Christianity and what it does to our understanding of God, self, and community — as reflected in the way Christians worship.

I write candidly about doubts about Christianity and my frustrations with current expressions of evangelicalism.

Lian Xi, a professor of world Christianity at Duke Divinity School, has written extensively about China's modern encounter with Christianity.

It's been a while since I've written here about Christianity, gender roles, and the whole egalitarian / complementarian divide, but a couple things prompted today's post.

I wrote about them above and showed that the tendency toward violence has always existed in Christianity.

We have Jewish writers (Josephus, the Talmud) and Roman Historians (Tacitus) write about Jesus and Christianity.

As a spiritual person I am also (in not even a remote way) rejecting the idea of the afterlife, however I am rejecting most ideas as written in scripture since IMO scripture has very little to do with the true msg of Christ or the true msg Christianity once was about.

If it doesn't excist why write about it... Many atheist's who are authors inspire Christianity some spending all thier time trying to make others deny Christ.

She holds a PhD in physiology and is a respected scholar who has been writing and teaching about the Jewish background of Christianity for the past fifteen years.

The author is a pastor in the UK who writes a comic strip about Jesus, Christianity, and the church.

From her work as a religion editor at Publishers Weekly, to her expansive writing and lecturing career, to her The Divine Hours series, Phyllis has a remarkable ability to speak wisely and prophetically about the future of Christianity while remaining joyfully rooted in its past.

What made you decide that hipster Christianity was worth writing an entire book about (as opposed to an article or blog post)?

Responding to a piece I wrote for the Washington Post about my journey from young earth creationism to evolutionary creationism, Mohler told readers that my «glib and superficial endorsement of evolution and its reconciliation with Christianity is all too common and all to irresponsible.»

Much still needs to be said and written about violence perpetuated by Christians against each other, because an analysis of such violence will help us to understand whether or not Christianity has contributed to the nurturing and fostering of peace.

Systematic philosophical thinking about urbanism antedates Christianity, going back to Aristotle, who wrote some four centuries before Christ that the best life for human beings is lived in community with others, and most particularly in a polis.

If you are going to write an article about fundamental or traditional Christianity you should find what the faith really is and why Obama's version is so skewed.

I think it would be more worthwhile to write an article about the discrimination against and criticisms of Mormons, who are also Christians and part of Christianity.

You are not qualified to write about Bible or christianity.

Among other things, they write about why they have left Christianity.

however, it was Constantine's myths written about the time of Ceaser that gave rise to the new testament and modern Christianity.

Have you ever thought about writing a book on how Christianity can move forward in the future?

After all, when writing a book about music and Christianity, why wouldn't one bother to emphasize that great tradition of musically - focused Christian faith, drawing upon the resources which, in God's providence, that tradition alone could provide.

I wrote «The Sexy Wife I Can not Be» on Deeper Story, which went crazy (so many comments), followed by «I'm Sick of Hearing About Your Smoking Hot Wife» on Christianity Today.

«People tend to think that Stephen King is anti-religious because he is a horror writer, but that's completely mistaken,» says Zahl, a retired Episcopal priest who has written about King's religious sensibility for Christianity Today magazine.

A father wrote me for advice about how to convince his atheist son that Christianity was true.

Note: After doing a lot of reading, research, and thinking on the topics in this post, I wrote a follow - up post about the pagan roots of Christianity here and some of my concluding thoughts about Zeitgeist the movie.

She does not tell us whether she has come to identify fully with this version of Christianity, but she makes clear that in this book she writes as a social scientist who in this role can not make statements about the ultimate validity of the Evangelical experience of God.

«Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument; then collected information about child - psychology and decided what age group I'd write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out «allegories» to embody them.

In his classic book, Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis wrote something which directly applies to the question in our courts and churches today about defining marriage.

How can you write a story about Christianity without even bothering to mention even a few of the BASIC doctrinal concepts that form the very foundation of Christianity??

So is Christianity really following Jesus or the writers of these gospels... oh and the Hebrew chapters has not clue who and when was it written... my suggestion is to spend sometime to know what you believe and what you want to believe... also if you really like to know about what real Jesus was, please read Quran... more eighty times the name of Jesus is mentioned in this book... where there is a chapter with Jesus» mother name «Mary» chapter 19, there is another chapter name «ale imran'the grand father of Jesus, chapter 3... and then compare what Jesus really was dear brother in mankind...

We have blogs, we write books, we talk about the most recent issue of Christianity Today.

Friendly Atheist: On Tuesday I wrote a post for Relevant Online about Christianity and evolution that generated a lively discussion, particularly over at Friendly Atheist, where Hemant Mehta argues that it's not enough to say that the evidence supports evolution; one must concede that the evidence rules God out completely.

Despite the central importance of Christianity to Clemente, many who write or speak about him downplay or ignore it.

She is writing to the cultured despisers of Christianity, hoping to demonstrate just how progressive Christianity is, but she is also eager to affirm their prejudices about Christianity's failures and limitations.

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

It often seems like Christianity is more about teaching, preaching, speaking, writing, printing, and publishing than it is about actually doing the things we teach and write about.

The Bible is not the center of Christianity, rather it is written about the center of Christianity: Jesus.

«If only the Church of England had paid Mrs Thatcher the courtesy of taking her Christianity seriously when she was in power,» writes the Telegraph's Damian Thompson about her years as prime minister.

When Oxford academic CS Lewis wrote about his adult conversion from atheism to Christianity in Surprised by Joy (HarperCollins) in 1955 it became an apologetics classic, one still read by Christians and seekers to this day.