I had never heard of Eckhart Tolle and his “Oprah Book Club” best-seller, A New Earth, until a woman in a Christian writers’ group said she needed to leave early to catch the satelite seminar of the book. I do hope she was simply doing research and not an adherent to the latest [...]

OK, I promise this will be my last post on the Hitchens debate. But it looks like video from the debate is online, and you can watch the entire debate courtesy of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies.
The entire debate went on for about two hours, which is a bit much to watch on your [...]

It’s Friday afternoon; how about something fun? Well, maybe fun isn’t quite the word—perhaps schadenfreude is better. That’s what I experienced watching this video of famous skeptic James Randi exposing faith-healer/televangelist Peter Popoff as a fraud:

(Here’s a follow-up video detailing Popoff’s “ministry” and fall—and which mentions the depressing fact that Popoff is still out there [...]

Yep, according to a new Harris poll, 62 percent of U.S. residents believe in a literal hell and the devil compared to only 42 percent who believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution. (I’ve always argued that it requires much more faith to believe incredibly complex life simply evolved than to believe in a Creator.)
The poll [...]

Throughout the primary campaign, Republican Mitt Romney has dodged questions about his Mormon faith. Now, trailing in Iowa caucus polls to conservative Christian Mike Huckabee, Mitt is taking off the gloves. He’ll address his faith in a news conference scheduled for today.
I suspect he will echo President John Kennedy, who argued [...]

I found this article on Christianity Today through Exploring Our Matrix.
The main thrust of Moreland’s session with the Evangelical Theological Society seems to be concerning the proper understanding of sola scriptura and the interplay between special revelation (i.e. miracles, prophecy, the bible) and general revelation (i.e. physical universe, human conscience, providence)
I found this quotation compelling: [...]

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Thoughts? I’d be interested to hear both your initial reaction and how it settles with you.
Heavenly Sanctuary commissioned this image for their Good News Tour and I found it via Pastor Greg Boyd’s blog. He discusses some of the controversy in his post Washing Osama’s Feet.
From [...]

Did you see the debate? No, not the predictably boring Democrat and Republican candidates, but fromer TV star Kirk Cameron and New Zealand evangelist Ray Comfort versus the two atheists, Brian Sapient and Kelly (no surname). Brian and Kelly are behind the controversial “Blasphemy Challenge” – a campaign on YouTube that [...]

In what, I’m afraid may be a “sweeps” stunt, UPI is reporting that . . .
Actor Kirk Cameron and author Ray Comfort will square off in New York with two atheists to debate the existence of God live on ABC.com.
The debate will be Wednesday after the network rescheduled it from Saturday to capture a [...]

Brian Flemmings’ so-called documentary, The God Who Wasn’t There is the latest in a series of films attempting to discredit Jesus Christ (The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Tomb of Jesus).
Mike Licona at AnsweringInfidels.com, provides a thorough (and at time laborious) job of discrediting those attempting to discredit the gospel accounts of [...]