We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.
I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.
Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do the will of God; and I am called upon to help the government to do the same.
Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.
A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.
My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.
Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.
Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically.
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.
Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.
I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.
While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.
When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.
Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.
There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges.
The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.
There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations.
As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.
President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?
