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Not so Separate Church and State—Should Christian Organizations Get Breaks from the Government?
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Ben Witherington
The New York Times this week has run a series of interesting articles by Diana B. Hendriques about the ever decreasing size of the wall between church and state in a variety of matters. This particular blog will try to digest the evidence she presents. Here first are links to several of the articleshttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/business/08religious.html?pagewanted=6&_r=1&th&emc=th http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/09/business/09religious.html?th&emc=th…
Lessons from the Amish– the Power of Pacifism
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Ben Witherington
Marian Fisher was only thirteen. She had a lot to live for, and probably many years yet to live. Yesterday she was buried in a cold steady rain in a little farm graveyard near Georgetown Pennsylvania. When Marian went to her little Amish school last Monday morning she had no idea what she would face,…
The 4% Doctrine– Where Are our Evangelical Youth Going?
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Ben Witherington
Ron Luce is worried. And if Ron Luce is worried, we should be too. Ron runs an organization called Teen Mania which puts on camps, concerts and various and sundry other sorts of events for youth. He claims that in the last fifteen years 2 million youth have attended his events, the usual formula for…
Thoroughly Post-Modern Biblical Interpretation
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Ben Witherington
Post-Modernism is an odd movement of our time. As it affects theological reflection it has both its good and bad aspects. The good news is it takes less atomistic approaches to the Bible. For example, it is concerned with canonical theology as a whole, Biblical theology as whole. These are not bad things in themselves.…
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