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Archive for March, 2012

Q&A: Does God want the Gospel spread by deceit?

Friday, March 30th, 2012

CraigC. asks: Does God want the Gospel spread by deceit? Is it is moral to collect donations on the basis of deceit? He has not promoted the Gospel but shamed it. God did not speak to Camping in any way but by Satan and his own imagination and deceit and greed. He does nothing to [...]

Review: The Hunger Games Trilogy

Monday, March 19th, 2012

When a new fad of fiction hits the popular mind I make a habit of engaging with it.  Twelve years ago I did it when Harry Potter arced up.  More recently I engaged with Twilight (where by “engage” I mean forcing myself to complete the first book).  After all, its from this sort of phenomenon that [...]

Review: Baptism – Its Purpose, Practice and Power

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

This is one of those “an oldy but a goody” books.  It’s by Michael Green and was first published in 1987. I had a reason for reading it.  It was one of those awesome moments of messy missiology when gospel realities and ecclesiastical niceties don’t quite line up:  My Bishop was leading a reaffirmation of [...]