April 19, 2009
Rick Warren’s “Jack Tripper” Problem
If it combines Pastor Rick Warren and “Three’s Company,” you know Fred Clark must be behind it.
Notwithstanding the terrific humor value, I think Clark is dead on here. Just as with his inaugural invocation (to say nothing of the recent controversy over Prop 8), Warren is trying to pretend as though his theology and politics are much more mainstream than they really are.
The (predictable) result seems to be that he’s losing his natural allies among the Way-of-the-Master crowd without gaining any support from liberal evangelicals like Fred Clark (let alone atheists like me).
Does the Gospel of John Subvert the Synoptic Gospels?
Rev. Jeremy Smith seems to think so. His argument stems from (1) John’s omission of the prayer at Gethsemene followed by (2) John 18, in which Rev. Smith claims that Jesus quotes from, and ridicules, the prayer account contained in the other Gospels.
HT: James McGrath.
A Slight Twist on the Way of the Master “Good Person Test”
Do you consider yourself to be a Good Person?
HT: Unreasonable Faith.
Evaluating Christianity 