We ended Part 3 of this history with reference to An Examination of the Scientific, Ethical, and Theological Implications of Climate Change, produced by the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance—the original name of what became the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. I don’t think any of us involved in creating it could imagine all that would come of it. But it shook some things up.Over a decade before, Marxist atheist astronomer Carl Sagan (famous for his Cosmos PBS program, each … [Read more...]
From Climate to LGBTQ, Poor Discernment Knows No Boundaries
The ability to "test all things, hold fast what is good" (1 Thessalonians 5:21) is something that all Christian leaders/teachers are obligated to cultivate assiduously. Liberal Baptist theologian/ethicist David Gushee, discussed in Rod Dreher's blog post "We Have Been Warned," has failed in that and led many thousands of Christians into serious errors in theology, ethics, politics, even economics and science. Gushee supports government's forcing churches and religious schools to embrace LGBT … [Read more...]
