Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.6.08 in Current Events, Theology
In a recent edition of Willow Creek magazine, Kevin Kelly tries to imagine the next 1000 years of Christianity. To put that in perspective, suppose we took a Christian in 1008 (maybe from Africa or Spain or India) and asked him to imagine what the church would look like in 2008. No matter what he said, he would be unlikely …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.22.08 in Abortion, Current Events
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that effectively legalized abortion in America. Since then over 40 million unborn babies have been legally killed in our country.I can still remember when abortion first gripped my heart as a moral issue that Christians cannot avoid. It happened in 1 …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.8.07 in Anchor Book Depot, Current Events, Keep Believing Ministries
A few years ago we sent 5000 copies of An Anchor for the Soul to Word of Life in New York where they were bundled with a New Testament and a Quiet Time Diary. These Solider Quiet Time Packs were then sent to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. We just received this report (via Wayne Lewis) from a soldier serving in Iraq:I j …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.23.07 in Current Events
Peggy Noonan argues persuasively (and correctly, in my opinion) that we are making too much of the religious faith of those running for public office. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately, partly because of my travels around the country and partly because of the widely reported divide within the evangelical camp …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.8.07 in Current Events, Internet/Blogging, Personal
This morning I decided to go to Panera Bread to pick up some bagels for breakfast. I ended up coming back with bagels plus a few other goodies, enough for maybe 8 people, certainly more than Marlene and me and Dave and Lynette. But that’s part of the fun. You start looking at the display case and you end up buying mor …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.14.07 in Current Events, Theology
A few days ago Ann Coulter had a dust-up with Donny Deutsch on his CNBC program “The Big Idea.” Ostensibly she was being interviewed about her new book “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.” But the interview turned into a discussion about how the Jews need to accept Christ in order to be “perfected,” a …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 9.11.07 in Current Events
Where were you when you heard the news six years ago today? And what do you remember about that day?I was in my basement office at home, preparing for the staff meeting that would start at church at 9 AM. Around 8:30 AM Marlene called to say, “Turn on the TV. A plane has hit the World Trade Center.” I remember watching the …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 9.5.07 in Current Events, Evangelism
Sad news out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Famed pastor D. James Kennedy died this morning at the age of 76. After suffering cardiac arrest last December, he underwent a rigorous program of physical therapy but never returned to the pulpit. During his long and fruitful ministry at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, he wrote ma …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.31.07 in Current Events, Theology
All week long we’ve heard the sad, sordid story of the senator from Idaho who has been accused of hypocrisy because he was allegedly soliciting gay sex even though he voted against gay marriage. Chief among the complaints is that the senator practiced in private what he condemned in public, and that complaint is stret …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 7.21.07 in Current Events
I suppose most of us hardly recognized the name of Louisiana Senator David Vitter until his name popped up on the phone list of a Washington “escort service.” He made a public confession and, with his wife by his side, asked for forgiveness. That much was unremarkable. It turns out that he was an outspoken leader in the cru …
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