We began a couple of weeks ago to look at Kevin Corcoran’s book Rethinking Human Nature: A Christian Materialist Alternative to the Soul where he develops a constitution view of human persons. The fourth chapter of the book deals with moral, ethical, and theological ramifications of metaphysical views of persons. There is much worth discussion…

After reading the long post and many responses over at Parchment and Pen and after yesterday’s post, I have this response: Much of what Dan Wallace says is true and many “liberal” institutions are not all that “liberal” in that they make sure to admit students with a variety of beliefs, and it is also…

A new study from George Barna on Mainline churches…. Since the 1950s, however, mainline churches have fallen on hard times, declining from more than 80,000 churches to about 72,000 today. The growth among evangelical and Pentecostal churches since the 1950s, combined with the shrinking of the mainline sector, has diminished mainline churches to just one-fifth…

Matthew opens up his Gospel with these words: A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham:Abraham was the father of Isaac,Isaac the father of Jacob,Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers … and then we get more generations of name that begin with Abraham. A significant…

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