Southern Baptist Leader Albert Mohler – “Yoga Is Not Christian”

Disneyland, women pastors, marriage equality… all things that the Southern Baptist leadership has opposed at one time or another.  Now we can add one more thing to this list, yoga. Yoga is an ancient meditative practice in a number of Eastern religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.  In essence, it’s a practice that teaches one to control all of the body’s functions and unite them...

Bullying, Teen Suicide, And The American Family Association

This country has gone nuts. Only in this country would legislation to criminalize bullying be opposed by a group calling themselves the American Family Association.  Why do they oppose such legislation?  Well, let’s let their words speak for themselves: The legislation has been hamstrung by groups like the American Family Association of Michigan because of the enumerated, or listed, protected classes....

Abandonment

If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it. – Luke 17:33 Jesus often talks about how, in order to inherit the kingdom, we need to abandon our worldly ambitions.  The passage from Luke, quoted above, is just one example of this. From the very beginning of his ministry, Jesus calls his followers to abandonment as a requirement of following him.  For...

Theological Illiteracy In The US On The Rise

Via Yahoo News: A new survey of Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths. Respondents to the survey were asked 32 questions with a range of difficulty, including whether they could...

Monastic Communities – Faith In Action

h/t – Huffington Post GRESHAM, Ore. (RNS) In the two years since David Knepprath and Josh Guisinger moved into the rough-and-tumble Barberry Village complex, roughly a dozen young Christian men and women have made Barberry Village their home. Their goal: Create a sense of community in a chaotic neighborhood overrun with drugs, prostitution and gangs. It’s not an easy way to live. Some neighbors...