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Articles of Interest 02-27-10

26 February 2010 3 Comments

Articles of Interest 02-27-10

Jesus Needs New PR – website seeks to restore stephen baldwin (compares stephen to job from the bible) – Matthew Paul Turner, whose blog I have been reading alot of as of late, has discovered a web site called restorestephenbaldwinDOTorg that is asking for money to give to Stephen Baldwin because of all the ‘persecution’ he’s been through. Turner actually thought the web page was fake until one of the major ‘official Christian film critics’ has a YouTube video endorsing the project

Polycarp – 10 People Who Give Christianity a Bad Name – too bad the list was only for 10 people. I could name a whole lot more like Rev. Ike, James Dobson, all the televangelists on late night BET, Gene Scott, Benny Hinn, Todd Bentley and all those who frequent The Elijah List, and many many others

Crossroads – “The “Hurting People” View Doesn’t Always Lead to Good Doctrine” – Very astute observations. In those private and scathing e-mails you don’t see, I get unjustly accused of this by many people.

Cerulean Sanctum – The Christian Singles Mess – boy is it ever a mess and the writer nails it down. I can really go off on a rant here but all it does is give me a splitting headache and more of those private and scathing e-mails rebuking me and calling me ‘bitter’

Let’s remember to pray for Jollyblogger (David Wayne). His update is at the link provided. Also Internet Monk (Michael Spencer) has updated his readers on his fight. Also, let’s don’t forget to continue praying for Matt Chandler of the Village Church is his fight with a brain tumor.

Phil Cooke – The Change Revolution Ministry Flash Points – How a pastor acts, dresses, etc. does make an impact on how others view them.

pjmiller / Soli Dei Gloria – Some fantastic heretics I have known – Very interesting insight on Dominionism.

Rick Hiebert via the Bene Diction Blogs On Blog – Todd Bentley nibbles the Morningstar ordination cheese – comments about the Todd Bentley ordination and the travesty of it.

Slaughter of the Sheep – Holy Ghost Hokey Pokey – from the same people that ordained Todd Bentley comes The Holy Ghost Hokey Pokey. What’s next? The Holy Spirit Macarena? or The Stanky Legg In The Spirit? or Soulja Boy Crank Dat Spiritual Warfare?

Beyond Grace – Revisionism and Emma’s Gender Change – Again – Good catch Bill Fawcett!




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3 Responses to “Articles of Interest 02-27-10”

  1. Rick Hiebert says:
    February 26, 2010 at 10:52 pm

    Thanks for the mention. :)

  2. Frequent Commenter Ken says:
    March 1, 2010 at 4:38 pm

    You don’t need to go on a rant re The Christian Singles Mess. I went to the site and posted a few.

  3. Frequent Commenter Ken says:
    March 2, 2010 at 9:11 pm

    Admin –

    An insight I had during the Christian Singles free-for-all over at Cerulean Sanctum. One of the commenters posted about hearing “all the prayer requests for unsaved husbands” and we’ve both encountered the paradox of single Christian women lamenting they can’t find a Christian man and single Christian men lamenting every single Christian woman has rejected them. I think I have a partial explanation:

    In another comment (on the thread), I said how I longed to hear “I love you” without the attached “…as a Brother in Christ”. I think that might be part of the problem: Within a church or church-associated singles group, we have not only established a tribal identity but a FAMILY identity. And you don’t get the hots for your brother or sister, but only for someone outside your family.

    This is called “exogamy”, and acts biologically to prevent incest/inbreeding. I know I didn’t want a “sister” (even though I never had one for real), but a girlfriend who’d become a wife, a co-equal partner through life. Maybe the Christian single women doing all the rejecting are seeing the single Christian men only as “brothers” instead of potential husbands.

    This is a biological reason for the “lure of the exotic”, where over-familiarity acts as a brake on attractiveness and the exotic Other becomes very attractive. (I’m in Furry Fandom, and a lot of the attraction for semi-human “furry ladies” (such as Mrs Fox in Fantastic Mr Fox is that they are the ultimate Exotic Outsider.)

    Those women “with unsaved husbands” may have rejected Christian suitors because they were Christian and thus “family”, while being attracted to those men on the outside outside because they weren’t of the Christian “Family”. Too familiar, not enough different/exotic.

    And the attraction of women to Users & Abusers. Too different/exotic.