Colorado has been an interesting place to live in 1993. We’ve watched Amendment 2, Dan’s Bake Sale, Pat Schroeder’s hair style, and now World Youth Day. This last event has been the most amazing by far. 375,000 Catholics from 70 countries of the world came here to observe the Mass from their holiest priest. This […]
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Author: Rick Shrader
Pardon Me?
I’m sure that when Congregationalist John Harvard founded the school in 1636 that still bears his name, and Puritan minister John Eliot was busy converting and civilizing Massachusetts Indians, they were not anticipating the recent article in the Harvard Theological Review by Roy Bowen Ward. According to Ward, first century Christians had no hang-ups on […]
Democracy and Christianity
I’m glad to be a Christian living in America. But I must admit that as another July 4th comes and goes, it is getting more difficult to put my hand on my heart, which belongs to a holy Savior, and pledge allegiance to what I see around me! I’m not a pessimist. I’m not a […]
A Biblical Feminism?
Sure, the men of this world have gotten a little extreme at times. An old German proverb states, ‘‘Never believe a woman, not even a dead one.’’ An old Persian saying goes, ‘‘Woman is a calamity, but every house must have its curse.’’ The Talmud teaches, ‘‘Better to burn the Torah than to teach it […]
Values Or Morals?
May I express my opinion about you being so fat? Not according to a recent interview I heard on the radio! It seems a woman journalist adorned her averaged sized frame with a ‘‘fat suit’’ that made her appear 150 pounds heavier than normal. She then spent the day mingling among the unaware, expecting to […]
Knowing The Time
We are all concerned, or at least should be, with knowing what’s going on in our own generation. Even though we may protest, our churches are affected by the present culture often to the same degree as most transient institutions. It is not, therefore, a consolation to have to agree with Neil Postman when he […]
Is Hell Forever?
There is a renewed twist in an old doctrine these days. We remember hearing about when fundamentalists fought the liberals over the existence of hell. Many of them have found the truth by now. We have lived with the notion that hell is not literal, enduring the hermeneutical gymnastics of left wing evangelicals who believed […]
Our Amendment 2
For those of us who live in Colorado, the homosexual issue is a daily routine. We are constantly reminded at every turn of our intolerance toward those who call themselves homosexual or gay. Amendment 2 in this state is a microcosm of the feeling of the nation as a whole. This issue has raised a […]