Posts Tagged by Christian Education
Should Churches Adopt a No Child Left Behind Approach?
| March 16, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, atheism, Blog, Christianity and Culture, evolution, General, spirituality |
What I mean is this: we know that the Church in America is in decline by survey and personal experience, and we can suppose that this is because of ‘the way we are doing things’ but we can’t be sure what is producing strong Christians or weak Christians unless we have some sort of assessment.
Of course, you have to actually want to know, don’t you? If a 100 kids leave your congregation and 98 of them fall from the faith within 5 years and 90 never return that is something that I would want to know if I was the leader of a congregation. Then I would want to know what kind of framework those kids had when they left and how they received it. If I learned that my programs were actually setting them up to get smacked around like a pinata at college, I’d want to know.
Online Presentation on the Demise of Christianity
| February 18, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under atheism, Blog, Christianity and Culture, General, philosophy, theism, theology |
Below I have the ‘video’ of my online presentation on the ‘death of Christianity.’ I have been developing a line of thought and the corresponding presentation for about a year. I adapted by presentation for the uniquness of this format. My adaptations reflected the fact that it was a virtual presentation, that it was predominantly a ‘professional’ church work Christian audience, and that it was predominantly a Lutheran Christian audience. Also, the outline of my presentation (unadapted) is about 45 mins, here I only had 30 mins to work with.
I am hosting the video on my ministry’s new Christian file sharing service, emphasizing apologetics videos. The site is www.apologeticsvideos.net. At this time, I am allowing anyone to post apologetics related videos so if you have got them feel free to upload them. (The chief advantage is that there is no time limit on a video. There is, however, a 100mb file size limit)
With no further ado, here is the video of the presentation:
Should you care about the question of God’s existence?
| February 6, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under atheism, Blog, General, spirituality, theism, theology |
All in all it was an interesting exchange. I thought his explanation for his disbelief confirmed what I’ve been saying for some time about the church actually creating atheists. In fact, let me take a minute to single out a correspondent from a church in Indiana- is that specific enough?- who recently complained about my ‘law’ posts attacking the state of the church and how we are transmitting the faith and just ask him: do you ever even talk to people who are not Christian? It must be nice to operate in a little bubble where you figured you did your job after you confirmed all the kids in your youth group but then 48 out of 50 of them fall away in college- and you hardly are aware and are happily willing to go on doing everything the same way you’ve always done it. Meanwhile, we apologists strive to clean up the mess. It is a mess made worse, often, I think, then if they had never been raised in the faith at all. (Matthew 12:43-45) Yes, if it’s law, it is a law message that you need to hear.
But I digress.
The conversation I had last night raised a number of lines of thoughts for me
What did Jesus mean by ‘Faith like a little child’? Dawkins on curiosity
| September 29, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under General |
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore,…
Sunday School Christianity Is Dangerous to the Faith
| July 13, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
But what if it is the very methods of transmitting the faith that is actually undermining it left and right in our society? Is it really the case, as I have argued, that the Christian church is producing nonbelievers and atheists?
The Christian and Harry Potter and Dumbledore: A Christian changes his mind?
| October 30, 2007 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
Not too long ago I posted an article talking about Rowling’s outing of Dumbledore as a gay man. In it, I expressed disappointment and wondered what the point and purpose of this unnecessary revelation was. The battle still rages and I have got to say that many Christians are just being absurd. Not only with…
Christian Education and Apologetics
| January 3, 2007 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
This is under discussion on my forum, here. My own story is that I went through 12 years of Christian education and went to a Christian university to be a Christian pastor and promptly was reduced to atheism or something very close to it. When I returned to Christianity it was with a desire to…
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