One of the issues facing Christianity today is that people are looking at this faith, and perhaps more particularly the Bible as though it were an “either/or” proposition.
Q. Setting aside intensity of persecution, do you think you would be an atheist if you lived 300 years ago? Do you feel you could sustain contentment without today’s scientific cosmological understanding?
I had the pleasure of attending the John Crossan talk at Gonzaga University last week, which I learned about first from one of my young atheist friends at the Eastern Washington University Atheists (who drew on the SpokaneFAVS announcement for information on it, by the way).
The apostles of Jesus say to him, "Increase our faith." He replies that if we have faith the size of a mustard seed (which is quite small), we could say to this tree "be uprooted" and it would obey us.
The summer that once sizzled with expectation over the possible passage of comprehensive immigration reform will now fizzle into a five-week Congressional recess. Insiders say the chances Congress will pass sweeping reform this year is just north of nil. Fifty-three percent of voters prefer Speaker Boehner’s piecemeal approach, which would attempt to chop it up into a series of smaller bills.
It's no secret that the world is full of religions. Even within any given religion one is sure to find various flavors" and varieties. Christendom alone offers something like 40,000 different denominational flavors.