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The Desiring God Blog had a post yesterday about this topic, I’d suggest you go and read it there, I’m just going to include the quote that they quoted in it.
Indeed, Buddhism teaches the aim of emptying the self of all desire. As [Stephen] Prothero observes, “Buddhists observe that suffering arises from a 12-fold chain [...]

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Christian Defense of Socialism

by Jayson on April 3, 2008

I read this article on a Christian defense (not a proposal of it necessarily) of Socialism.
But let us pretend, just for a moment, that I am calling for full blown socialism. I don’t think I am, but let’s just pretend. Is that the worst thing that could happen? Would that be un-American? Unbiblical? Let’s [...]

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I Hate the Emerging Church

by Jayson on March 25, 2008

Last night I was catching up on my feed reader and came across a link to this humorous post called You Might Be Emerging If…
The post is quite funny, and to be honest it doesn’t bring up a contention with the Emergent movement within the church as much as people’s “need” to draw lines and [...]

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Fluff Fast

by Jayson on March 24, 2008

This past weekend, on “Holy Saturday” to be exact, I was in a Family Christian Bookstore and was really pretty upset by the sheer amount of Christian kitsch and fluff that was around me… not to mention the things that don’t have any place in a strictly Christian bookstore. There are crappy little bumperstickers, weight-loss [...]

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The Emergent Confusion Confusion

by Jayson on January 31, 2008

First off, for those of you who don’t care much about the internal bickerings of people in the Christian church you can go to the next post in your feed reader. This one won’t be very interesting…
Before I get into it, I want to note that I am not a part of the movement that [...]

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