Tolerance

Wes Widner on November 17th, 2010

We’ve been trained to react to certain words, like Pavlov’s dog. So we hear “diversity” and we are supposed to automatically think it is a universal good. So says Thomas Sowell in this interview where he also outlines the other problems with the popular stance on diversity. In a longer interview from the Fixed Point [...]

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Wes Widner on April 16th, 2010

[HT Answering Muslims] Here are videos from an excellent debate between Mary Jo Sharp of Confident Christianity and Tabassum Hussain PhD. on the topic: “Women: The Bible and The Quran.”: OPENING STATEMENTS 1ST REBUTTALS 2ND REBUTTALS/Q&A CONCLUSIONS

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Wes Widner on April 7th, 2010

Here are a few videos Greg Boyd talking about his book, Myth of a Christian Nation that I’ve recently read. Now I don’t agree with Boyd on everything he says (specifically his insistence on complete pacifism). But I do agree with his main premise that wedding Christianity too tightly to any political party of “version [...]

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Wes Widner on November 23rd, 2009

Our simple church group recently took up the rather controversial topic of homosexuality. It is a prevalent issue in the public square as well as among the Christian community1 and we decided that the topic was worth perusing in order to know where we all stood on the issue (and, more importantly, where we are supposed to stand on [...]

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