Singapore is a very clean nation, with very nice citizens. Not surprisingly, then, its people voice their complaints in choral form…the public performance of which is promptly banned. Evidently, other nations also have complaint choirs. Continue reading The Singapore Complaints Choir
YOUCEF NADARKHANI WATCH: “From Death Sentence to Rape Charges, Iranian Pastor’s Case Is Rare—and Disputed.” In response to international condemnation for Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani’s death sentence, the Iranian government has changed its story. Though Nadarkhani was found guilty and sentenced to death for apostasy in 2010, the semi-official Iranian news agency Fars News reported on September 30 that he will now be executed for Zionism, rape, and extortion. The Iranian Embassy in London also issued a statement, saying the Iranian Court of Appeals had made no official ruling in Nadarkhani’s case. But Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has official documents that … Continue reading The World Wide (Religious) Web for Friday, October 7, 2011
I’m reading The Atheist’s Guide to Reality by Alex Rosenberg, who is the R. Taylor Cole Professor and chair of the Philosophy Department at Duke University. He advocates a new term for atheism: scientism. “This is the conviction that the methods of science are the only reliable ways to secure knowledge of anything; that science’s description of the world is correct in its fundamentals; and that when ‘complete,’ what science tells us will not be surprisingly different from what it tells us today” (pp. 6–7). In the book, he asks and provides “scientific” answers to life’s “persistent questions. On pages … Continue reading Atheism = Scientism = Nihilism? My initial impression of “An Atheist’s Guide to Reality” by Alex Rosenberg
In this video, Doug Clay moderates a live Q&A with Dr. George O. Wood about a variety of topics related to the Assemblies of God. Here are the time codes for the various questions Dr. Wood answered: 01:27 Reflections on participation in a pastors conference in Perm, Russia 04:58 Installation of Greg Mundis, executive director of Assemblies of God World Missions (I’m interviewing Mundis on Thursday, October 6, at 1:00 p.m. [Central] on MinistryDirect.com/live. Email your questions to [email protected], Tweet them using #MinistryDirect, or enter them in the Facebook interaction tool on the live page. You can watch Mundis share … Continue reading Ask the Superintendent (October 5, 2011) with @GeorgeOWood and @DougClay
In this video, Dr. Jim Bradford continues his nine-part series on spiritual gifts from 1 Corinthians 12, focusing on discernment. Bradford is general secretary of the Assemblies of God (and my boss). Dr. Jim Bradford (@bradfordjim) on the spiritua…, posted with vodpod Continue reading Dr. Jim Bradford (@bradfordjim) on the spiritual gift of discernment
“WHAM! BAM! ISLAM!”: “Muslim superhero comics meet resistance in the U.S.” Naif Al-Mutawa anticipated a struggle when he launched an Islam-inspired comic book series that he hoped would become a symbol of toleration. He worried about the comics being banned in Saudi Arabia – which wound up happening, briefly – and he expected to be challenged by conservatives in Islam, since Al-Mutawa wanted to buck the trend of Islamic culture being directly tied to the Koran. But it wasn’t an Islamic cleric that stalled the series, called “The 99,” after the 99 attributes of Allah, which the superheroes are supposed … Continue reading The World Wide (Religious) Web for Thursday, October 6, 2011
In this video, Dr. Jim Bradford continues his nine-part series on spiritual gifts from 1 Corinthians 12, focusing on knowledge. Bradford is general secretary of the Assemblies of God (and my boss). Dr. Jim Bradford (@bradfordjim) on the spiritua…, posted with vodpod Continue reading Dr. Jim Bradford (@bradfordjim) on the spiritual gift of knowledge
LEFT-WING DOMINIONISM WATCH: “Don’t Confuse the Common Good with Statism.” Those who insist that the only (or the best) way to achieve the common good is to give more resources (and control) to the federal state, had better go looking for some evidence somewhere, that undergirds their self-righteousness. They insist that others of us, who do not support the expenditure of more state money, are immoral. Yet the first moral obligation, Blaise Pascal wrote, is to think clearly. And with evidence. What is true for the common good is also true for social justice. Those who insist that the test … Continue reading The World Wide (Religious) Web for Wednesday, October 5, 2011
In this video, Dr. George O. Wood continues On Your Mark, his devotional series on the Gospel according to mark. Wood is general superintendent of the Assemblies of God (and my dad). “Why?” (Mark 9:28-29), posted with vodpod Continue reading Dr. George O. Wood’s devotional on Mark 9:28-29: “Why?”
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