Mere Comments has a post about an easter preschool curriculum that purposefully fails to mention Jesus’ death and resurrection, which seems to me to kinda be the point of the holiday…
We didn’t know that the Gospel, like Ginsu knives and blood pressure medicine, ought to be kept out of the reach of small [...]

Found an article this morning on Ethics Daily about the Advent Conspiracy.
Sounds mysterious.“We celebrate Jesus’ birthday by giving ourselves presents,” McKinley says. “We don’t give him anything.” McKinley is pastor of the Imago Dei Community…
[Last year] McKinley and a few pastor friends from around the country hatched what they called the Advent Conspiracy. [...]

Are secular colleges risky for Christians? A new study suggests otherwise.

Mark Galli in Christianity Today has an article on The Cost of Christian Education that questions the way we teach children about faith. Galli, drawing on an essay by Debra Dean Murphy, writes about how educational programs traditionally designed by the church are inadequate to fully teach children how to be Christians.
Murphy argues that [...]

I got the chance to attend an advance screening of Evan Almighty, the sequel to Bruce Almighty. Now, I ain’t no highfalutin movie reviewer, so this is from an Average Mike. (The movie opens on 6/22.)
The movie stars Steve Carell of “The Office” and The 40 Year Old Virgin fame (there were several funny references [...]

Every Mothers Day as I grew up in the church, we would replace “Father” with “Mother” as we sang “Faith of our Fathers.” But if a new Barna survey is correct, that hymn should have had been written “Faith of our Mothers” in the first place.
Men may enjoy advantages in physical strength, but they [...]

First, thanks to Gospelcom.net content editor, Andy Rau, for the helpful package of resources in dealing with the Virginia Tech killings just one week ago today. (Being able to respond to crises almost in real time—I had resources on my blog within ten minutes of the news—is just one of the benefits of [...]

Here’s an interesting look at one of America’s most misunderstood religious communities: an article about rumspringa, an Amish “rite of passage in which young adults are allowed to dabble in the indiscretions of our world before officially joining the church.” The essay profiles a number of teenage and twentysomething Amish who, exploring the (not terribly [...]

“Christians should be having great sex lives! We should be having better sex than anybody else! So drop your inhibitions at the door of your own house.”
That’s Joe Beam, a Southern preacher out of the old school, a self-described “book-chapter-and-verse guy,” and leader of the Christian ministry Family Dynamics in Tennessee.
Then why such controversial talk, [...]

North Dakota (and apparently 7 other states) still has a law on the books that makes cohabitation illegal.
Recent attempts to overturn the law have failed, but the current attempt seems to be working, with adjustments.
Opponents of the law say it’s “unenforced, unconstitutional and silly.” Proponents say it has “important symbolic value.”
What do you say?