by Kevin Bauder | Oct 21, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Charismatic Movement, Pneumatology
He’s responding to the Charismatic theory. As the New Testament makes clear, being a “Spirit-filled” Christian has nothing to do with uttering mindless gibberish, crashing to the carpet in a hypnotic trance, or any other mystical encounter of supposed ecstatic...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 21, 2016 | Catholicism
McDonald’s would like to open a franchise just off St. Peter’s Square in Rome. Some Cardinals don’t like the idea. How they would feel about a Starbucks we don’t know.
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 21, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Religious Freedom
They’re not the same thing, according to Stephanie Russell-Kraft at Religion Dispatches. And conservatives are tilting more and more toward liberty. Political theorist Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, in her 1988 essay “Are Freedom and Liberty Twins?”, wrote that freedom...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 21, 2016 | Catholicism, Christianity, Church Unity, Ecclesiology
Not long ago Peter Leithart asked whether Protestantism had a future. Douglas Wilson didn’t like his answer. The exchange provides some valuable insight as to the nature and boundaries of the church. As Baptists, we would say some different things and say other...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 20, 2016 | Ethics, How the Left Thinks, Liberalism, Marriage
Gerald McDermott is an Anglican professor at Alabama’s Beeson Divinity School. He weighs in on the banning of InterVarsity Press by the Society for Biblical Literature in an essay entitled, “Stranger than Fiction.” Perhaps you notice the disconnect...
