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How to end racism

August 4, 2009

As always, a controversial topic like racism generated quite the discussion on my post, “How to perpetuate racism.” While those comments are still open, I’d like to give my view now on how to end it.
In my former post, I said that racism “has nothing to do with color. Frankly, it has everything to do [...]

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What is salvation without heaven? (response)

August 3, 2009

Several weeks ago I started what turned out to be a great conversation on this blog and my Facebook page when I asked:
Heaven is good incentive, but it’s not salvation. Without using Heaven as a hook, if I were not a believer, how would you approach me with your faith?
Don’t promise me something in the future. [...]

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How to perpetuate racism

July 22, 2009

If you are a regular here on my blog, you know that I don’t get into controversial topics like this very often. But I have had this thought running through my head most of the day, so I decided to get it out of my head and onto my blog. It’s really more of an [...]

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What is salvation without heaven?

June 28, 2009

I’ve been quiet here for the last week for two main reasons. First, I finished the books that I needed to review and posted those reviews the previous week. Secondly, I was focused on spending time together with the family and finishing my first work project.
But there was a lot of news made this past [...]

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Obama’s faith fits our times

June 5, 2009

Stephen Mansfield, author of The Faith of Barack Obama, which I have reviewed here, has written another great piece on this topic. This time it’s an opinion article in USA Today.
In short, Mansfield believes that President Obama’s eclectic, “big-tent” type of faith is exactly what the country ordered.
Americans are less likely to believe that any [...]

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