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Friday November 16, 2007
Semester Missionaries Needed
"Lakeshore Baptist Church needs energetic college or seminary students willing to spend their Spring or Summer (2008) semester working in the relief, recovery, and rebuilding efforts on the gulf coast."
What Defines the Reformed Faith?
In response to a new movement of Reformed Catholic churches, R. Scott Clark affirms what makes the Reformed faith distinctive.
Why Complementarianism Gets a Bad Rap
Lydia explains.
Atheism for Children
Atheist Richard Dawkins says he is considering writing a book for children.
"Lakeshore Baptist Church needs energetic college or seminary students willing to spend their Spring or Summer (2008) semester working in the relief, recovery, and rebuilding efforts on the gulf coast."
What Defines the Reformed Faith?
In response to a new movement of Reformed Catholic churches, R. Scott Clark affirms what makes the Reformed faith distinctive.
Why Complementarianism Gets a Bad Rap
Lydia explains.
Atheism for Children
Atheist Richard Dawkins says he is considering writing a book for children.
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Comments (4)
Tim, I posted the comment below on Lydia's blog, not sure if it is there yet, it needs to be moderated. Anyway I cross post it here (not sure if that is bad net manners) that perhaps more will interact with it.--------------------
"There are some who believe money is wasted on providing higher education for girls; such convictions, however unwittingly, actually rob women of being all they can be in the church and in the home."
I fear this is a false characterization. The movie 'The Return of the Daughters' deals with this exact issue and it features an interview with Voddie Baucham. Many of the readers coming from Tim's site know Voddie and respect him. He is a prominent proponent of this position and the characterization above bears no resemblance to the position he and the Botkin's present in the film.
I can think of one other group that has held this sort of position for ages and I don't see a whole lot of Christians getting too upset about it. The Amish. Even looking at the Amish one would have to see that the statement above is a mischaracterization of why the Amish do what they do. We rightly see through these mischaracterizations when they are made against more common views of complementarianism, we shouldn’t be so quick to return the favor to those slightly to the right.
I would say that Philip Pullman already wrote three atheist books for children (the "His Dark Materials" trilogy, starting with The Golden Compass, movie version coming soon to a theatre near you). Of course, Dawkins is writing non-fiction, so that would be different.
Elizabeth is right. The trilogy was prominently displayed in the main aisle of our local Wal-Mart a couple of weeks ago; I don't know whether it's still there.
Wait, isn't Reformed Catholicism the same thing as Protestantism? I mean, even the name makes little sense. The Reformers didn't see themselves as starting a brand new branch of Christianity, merely reforming Western Christianity.