Sometimes, I don’t like any of the answers.

Michael Spencer July 28th, 2009

Sometimes, I don't like any of the answers.

Let’s take the problem of suffering. My friend Glenda recently had a serious bleed-out in her brain. It looked for a while like she wasn’t going to make it. After a coma, two surgeries and some miraculous responses to treatment, she’s at a rehab center dealing with a relatively small amount of residual consequences.

This weekend at church, we were rejoicing in Glenda’s recovery. One person kept saying “Thank God for intervening.”

God i … (Read More)

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What is Just War Theory?

Kenneth Samples August 21st, 2007

Through the centuries Christian thinkers have taken different positions on the controversial subject of war. Three broad theories concerning the morality of war for the Christian can be identified: activism, pacifism, and selectivism. Activism asserts that it is virtually always right to participate in war. Strict pacifism insists that it is never morally right to partake in war. Selectivism argues that it is sometimes right to take part in war.

Just war theory is a type of selectivism contendin … (Read More)

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Watching Theology, Etc.

Erik Guzman July 13th, 2007

Christians and Hollywood have a checkered past. It seems that if we're not shunning movies altogether (or watching "Christian" films); we're fishing for sermon illustrations, Christ figures, and redemptive themes in movies where they just don't exist.

Joe and Melissa Johnson from the podcast Watching Theology are a different breed. They approach a film the way a theologian examines a Biblical text, looking at its philosophical and thematic elements, and listening close … (Read More)

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The Good News of Cheap Grace

Erik Guzman July 9th, 2007

For years, Steve Brown has been giving away free sins (as an aside, now you can too, click here). As you can imagine, this gets some people's undies in a bunch. To them, it's "cheap grace" and foolishness. But to those who are so bad as to need God's unconditional love and acceptance, it's incredibly good news…even the power of God for salvation.

Now, if you really believed God likes you and that you don't have to worry about your sin, what would you d … (Read More)

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Homosexuals and the Church (Re-Air)

Erik Guzman July 6th, 2007

This weekend, radio stations across the country will be re-airing the previously broadcast episode of SBE titled, Homosexuals and the Church. If you missed it, hit play below or download the mp3 and listen later. Don't forget, you can get each week's SBE delivered free by hitting the "Subscribe" button in the header of this page.

Steve's on vacation (first blogging now this…the end is surely near). But never fear, before he left, we pre-recorded some fresh SBE f … (Read More)

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Why Some Christians Still Love Conspiracy Theories

John H. Armstrong June 26th, 2007

Some months ago I read an intriguing editorial in the Wall Street Journal that got me to thinking about what I have seen in the church over the course of my lifetime. The editorial addressed a story about a University of Wisconsin lecturer, Kevin Barrett, who believes that the U. S. government actually staged the September 11 terrorist attacks. The response, when the story became public, came in two forms: 1) Fire him! 2) Is this guy really nuts?

The Wall Street Journal argued that the more rele … (Read More)

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