Month: May 2021

First published on Christian Converser Continuing on this theme, the key political alignment for Christians in the US is with the Republican Party, and this is despite the failure of Christians to see much commitment from Republican presidents. Voters in the last term got possibly more from Trump than from a good many of his… Continue reading Christian Converser: Conspiracy Theories and Christian Nationalism Contrarian To Church Growth [3]

First published on Christian Converser Back in a previous post on this blog the idea was floated that evangelical leaders had decided Trump was anointed / appointed by God to his role as US president, this was predicated on the strong language being used by these leaders to describe what would happen if Trump was… Continue reading Christian Converser: “Trump Is Anointed By God” – White Evangelicals Claim – As They Call For Election Reversal

First published on Christian Converser The Southern Baptist Convention is facing substantial backlash after six white seminary presidents met and issued a resolution denouncing Critical Race Theory, a “theoretical social sciences framework that examines society and culture as they relate to categorisations of race, law and power” (Wikipedia definition). CRT is something of a red… Continue reading Christian Converser: US Christian Nationalism Politics Splits America, Church [1]

First published on Christian Converser This is a really quick update to the first blog post about this subject. Delving into the subject in Google has turned up quite a bit more stuff, and whilst this post will be shorter than the last one, the additional information is really pertinent to this topic. Firstly, Ed… Continue reading Christian Converser: US Christian Nationalism Politics Splits America, Church [2]

First published on Christian Converser Everyone’s seen the disturbing unfolding of seditious political insurrection at the US Capitol in Washington DC on January 6. There’s no real need to go over that here, the main concern for this blog is the fatal attraction that the outgoing administration has held for evangelical Christianity in America and… Continue reading Christian Converser: US Christian Nationalism Politics Splits America, Church [3]

First published on Christian Converser Signs and Wonders refers to a particular branch of theology that has become noticeably prominent since about the 1960s in certain churches of a Pentecostal disposition or alignment. The main charge that traditional theologians often level against Pentecostals are that particular doctrines or beliefs and practices in Pentecostal (or Pentecostal-aligned,… Continue reading Christian Converser: Dreams, Visions and “Signs And Wonders” Theology

First published on Christian Converser This blog is taking a breather for a while. Theological posts will appear on Christian Converser instead.

First published on Christian Converser Following on from the posting about the book of Ecclesiasticus a few weeks ago, the bigger question that can be asked is how the Scriptural canon accepted by various churches came into being. This turns out to be surprisingly complex. The Old Testament is generally divisible into two parts, the… Continue reading Christian Converser: Formation of the Scriptural Canon

First published on Christian Converser In the first part of this series we took a look at the issue of conspiracy theories and how by feeding into a Christian Nationalist narrative, actual growth of the Kingdom of God is hindered rather than helped. As is often the case on this blog, further reflection on this… Continue reading Christian Converser: Conspiracy Theories and Christian Nationalism Contrarian To Church Growth [2]