by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Sep 17, 2012 | Random Commentary
Originally prepared September 2012 (09/17/2012, 11:46 PM, to be excessively precise) as a comment on a Facebook friend’s post.As I don’t have permission to reproduce the image I’m responding to, I ask the reader to visualize the following. A smiling...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Sep 16, 2012 | Pet Peeves
Though I’m generally a fan of LifeWay and its publications, I’m disappointed to find its new Gospel Project curriculum* indulging in the weary and misguided “religion is bad / Christianity is something other than religion” rhetoric (Ed Stetzer,...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 18, 2005 | Annotated Quotations, Pet Peeves
The world is full of popular, clever-sounding sayings that are simply not true. This brief post concerns one such pseudo-aphorism, namely this: Christianity is not a religion; it’s a relationship. (Anonymous, traditional.) This popular saying, which I have heard...