"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Quite some time ago I wrote a short post about the “health and wealth gospel” that gets kicked around some congregations these days. “Lutheran Satire” do a wonderful job of conveying the ridiculousness of this having the martyrs of the Early Church read some of Joel Osteen’s tweets:
Theology On Tap is an initiative in the Diocese and throughout the USA where young adults gather in a bar or restaurant to listen to a speaker, to fellowship with one another and grow in their faith.
Earlier in the month, I gave a talk at Theology On Tap about Sacred Scripture. The series continues, this time with the talk being given by Jamie Cleaton.
Jamie is a fellow resident of San Diego, where he lives with his wife and three children. Jamie has been a youth minister for four years. He has been involved with all kinds of youth events and he has been a professional speaker since 2008.
Here is the audio for his talk entitled “Making tough decisions: Listening to God’s voice as you make daily life decisions”:
Main Talk (Download)
Q&A (Download)
Trent Horn’s new book Answering Atheism has finally been released. My copies actually arrived yesterday which I’ll be giving away. Today, Trent responds to another common atheistic claim:
There’s a posse of us San Diegans heading to the March For Life in Washington DC, next January 22nd! Anyone else coming?
The next time someone tells you that “Religion is the cause of all the war in the world”, I’d invite you to point them at the statistics below which compare the atrocities perpetrated by theists to atheists.
To be clear, this in no way excuses the abuse of religion as an excuse to perpetrate evil, but hopefully it should provide a little bit of perspective…
Don’t like modern songs? Wish that it could be like the good ol’ days? Well, the contemporary song by Marty Haugen, Gather Us In, has been translated into Latin…