The Human Condition

Thoughts While Driving To Work Today

James Townsend / October 31, 2009 / No Comments

Tags alcohol, Anglican, baptist, beer, bible, Bono, Bush, calvinist, catholic, Che, christian, Christian Identity, deepak chopra, denomination, ELCA, emergent, gay, gay bishop, gospel, homosexual, jesus, lutheran, obama, Orthodox, paul, sin, St. Timothy, St. Timothy Lutheran Church, TBN, tradition, wendy's, wine

First off, I think Deepak Chopra gives me my Wendy’s breakfast order every morning.
Well. Probably not THE Deepak Chopra. But this guy looks just like him.
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The myriad disagreements between Christians struck me this morning during my drive through the cold drizzle of this gray Saturday.
This was probably because I passed my old Lutheran [...]

Constantine’s Courage

James Townsend / July 15, 2009 / 1 Comment

Tags catholic, church, constantine, conversion, courage, hauerwas, pagan, rome, stanley hauerwas

Just saw a quote on Twitter from Stanley Hauerwas:
“Before Constantine it took courage to be a christian. After Constantine it took courage to be a pagan.”

What concerns me a little is the tone of this statement. And it’s funny, because I don’t know the context, so I can’t say anything about Hauerwas’ tone in its [...]

Conditionally Speaking

There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God. We must always be accepted for Christ’s sake, or we cannot ever be accepted at all. This is not true of us only when we believe. It is just as true after we have believed. It will continue to be true as long as we live. Our need of Christ does not cease with our believing; nor does the nature of our relation to Him or to God through Him ever alter, no matter what our attainments in Christian graces or our achievements in behavior may be. It is always on His “blood and righteousness” alone that we can rest. - BB Warfield