Faith on View

Sin avoidance or doing right?

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“Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will.” -Eric Metaxas* Avoiding Sin On my author page on this site, I describe myself as “uncomfortably” evangelical. Once, …

A painting by John Martin of Lot's family fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah

Is the church and America guilty of the sin of Sodom? Wow! What a provocative question. Given the political culture in the USA right now, the mind automatically goes to issues like same-sex marriage and …

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Deconstruction is all the rage. It seems we are constantly bombarded with news of evangelical celebrities who have deconstructed their faith. Often, this leads, eventually, to news of the celebrity leaving the faith. What is …

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According to a new study published in Psychological Science, thinking about God can lead to an increase in generosity toward outsiders. The results suggest that religion can motivate people to be generous even towards outsiders …

There are typically three different philosophies about ethics: virtue ethics, duty ethics (deontology), and pragmatic ethics (consequentialism). Pragmatic ethics is the idea that the ethical validity of a position or action is based on the …

Within Christianity and evangelicalism more specifically, theology has always been an act of the word. This article argues for an expanded definition of theology to include theology produced in a visual and not just a …

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With God, it all comes back to a garden. Humanity, the Bible says, got its start in a garden, a place so perfect that everything was good to eat save one fruit. That fruit, however, …

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Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky has organized around-the-clock worship services attracting participants from all over the United States who wish to experience a spiritual revival. The worship services started on February 8 and consist of …

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i look to the god of my fears, and i do not bow, because that god is too small to have created the giant yew, or the stars or the galaxies of microbes that populate …

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A recent Barna Group study says that many Americans have become “more open to God” as a result of the CoVID-19 pandemic. The study by the faith-based group included 2,000 adult respondents and was conducted …