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The Camel’s Nose—How Moral Relativism Kills Churches
Today’s Protestant churches can learn from an old Arab fable which tells of a nomad and his camel who hunkered down during a sand storm. As the storm approached, the man hurriedly crawled into his...
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United Methodist Heresy Complaint Filed Against Karen Oliveto
A heresy complaint has been filed with the appropriate authorities in the United Methodist Church against the Rev. Dr. Karen Oliveto. In July 2016, the denomination’s schismatic Western Jurisdiction...
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Obedience – a Watchword for the Future
As Christians move into the future near the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, it is critical to look at what is the greatest threat to survival in the environment that American...
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What Governments Are Not: The Kingdom of God and Secular Government
(This is part one of a multi-part series that IRD will publish throughout the week of May 6-12) Christianity does not offer a ready-made politics that can be read off the pages of scripture. This is...
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Separating Christian Doctrine from Practice?
Bishop Timothy Whitaker (Photo credit: Kathy Gilbert / UMNS) Timothy W. Whitaker is a Retired United Methodist Church bishop who served the Florida Area. UM Voices is a forum for different voices...
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Lutheran Bishops and an Empty Hell?
Hell is empty and we should have no concern about our eternal fate, according to a recently elected Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) bishop. Bishop-elect Paul Egensteiner of the ELCA’s...
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Faith & Influential Books
Ivan Mesa of the Gospel Coalition interviewed me about books that I’m recently reading, books I commend and books that have been formative. Read the interview here.
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Bishop Timothy Whitaker: And His Kingdom Will Have No End
The following guest post is from Bishop Timothy Whitaker. Bishop Whitaker was elected to the United Methodist episcopacy in 2001, and led the Florida Annual Conference. He retired in 2012. The first...
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The Question of the Final Reference Point for Life
Central to the culture war being waged against Christianity is the question of the final reference point for life that people acknowledge. This question was analyzed by two speakers at the annual...
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Christian Celebrities vs Living Unseen
The emergence of Christian “celebrities” in modern America is an anomaly and represents the corruption of cultural accommodation in the last stages of Christendom. The church of the future after...
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Methodist Theology of Body
(Downloadable Podcast here) Tooley: Hello this is Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, speaking today with Tim Tennent, president, fellow president, in fact he became...
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Christmas & God’s Son Part I
The infancy narrative of Matthew is like a concert overture of the Gospel, unfolding the theme that the birth of Jesus the Messiah in Bethlehem under the shadow of the court of a deranged king in...
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Christmas & God’s Son Part II
(Part one can be viewed by clicking here) The Incarnate Son The stupendous fact of the Gospel is that the one and only Son is Jesus of Nazareth, the real human being in human history. As Antiochene...
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The First Easter: A Family Affair
The feast of Passover is celebrated by Jews in “each household,” as the LORD commands Moses in Exodus chapter 12. From the very beginning of Passover, it has been a family affair. Since the festival...
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God Our Creator
The decline in religious belief in the West is remarkable in light of the overwhelming evidence from human history and from anthropology that homo sapiens is a religious species. There are very...
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Carolyn Moore on Misunderstanding what Love Is
This guest column on common progressive Christian misunderstandings of what love is comes from Pastor Carolyn Moore, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church. She has served the good people of...
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Before You Lose Your Faith: Deconstructing Doubt in the Church
Before You Lose Your Faith: Deconstructing Doubt in the Church is a collection of 15 short essays recommendable to precocious youth group attendees and older believers alike. It compellingly defends...
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John Wesley’s Selection of Church Fathers and the Identity of Methodism
John Wesley never wrote a treatise on the church fathers, but he did make lists of the church fathers whom he admired as teachers and spiritual guides. These lists mainly appear in two of Mr. Wesley’s...
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Hippolytus of Rome
He is the only early church father who is memorialized by a statue which stands today at the entrance of the Vatican Library. He is the early church father whose writings were cited often during the...
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A Few Unfashionable Notes on Harmonizing the Infancy Narratives of Luke and...
Timothy W. Whitaker is a Retired United Methodist Church bishop who served the Florida Area. Every year when I read the infancy narratives of Luke and Matthew, once again I find my mind considering...
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