Visit (to Library) Prompts Letter (to Publisher): Sikh Edition
This is a letter I just wrote to an organization promoting Sikhism, the youngest of the so-called “world religions.” Encountering some Sikh beliefs in a recent editing project, I became curious, visited my local library, and checked out the Sikh Religion...
Just posted a comment on Craig Huey’s Site Re Jeffress, Trump, Romney
I just posted a comment on Craig Huey’s site.
Worth Reading…with Healthy Skepticism: Carrin’s Spirit-Empowered Theology
Carrin, Charles, D.D. Spirit-Empowered Theology. Minneapolis: Chosen, 2007. 351 pages. $19.99 retail. ISBN 978-0-8007-9817-8. I am not part of the signs-and-wonders (Pentecostal, charismatic, and Third Wave) movement, nor has this book tempted me to join up. Though my...
My Sad Farewell to Reddit, with Thoughts on Faith and Experience
As it happens, my Reddit post was “removed [by a Reddit moderator] as it violate[d] Reddit‘s content policy with respect to personal and identifying information.” Since I am philosophically opposed to anonymous Internet posting (If you’re not...
Reddit Comment Posted: Faith Not Based On Experience
Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) posted a comment to Reddit’s DebateReligion subreddit arguing that faith is not based on experience, evidence, or arguments, but that, rather, trust in the faculties that allow experience, evidence, and arguments depends on faith. To...
The Carson Option: Viable for Evangelicals?
I just read an interesting document, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and General Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church’s 2001 “Report of the International Theological Dialogue between the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the World Alliance...![Starting [Near] the Finish Line: [Almost] the Gospel of Grace](https://i0.wp.com/piouseye.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/wallace-starting-at-finish-line-cover-courtesy-publisher-square-crop-1200x1200.jpg?fit=674%2C675&ssl=1)
Starting [Near] the Finish Line: [Almost] the Gospel of Grace
Wallace, John B. Starting at the Finish Line: The Gospel of Grace for Mormons. Pomona House Publishing, LLC: 2014. 202+X pages. ISBN 978-0-9914622-0-9.IntroductionThis book has many positive qualities. The author’s sincere faith and desire to see Mormons saved...
Kosher Pig: Tasty in Places, but Undercooked
Shapira, Itzhak. The Return of the Kosher Pig: The Divine Messiah In Jewish Thought. Clarksville, MD: Lederer Books, 2013. xii+318 Pages. ISBN 978-1-936716-45-6.The author of The Return of the Kosher Pig (hereafter, Kosher Pig), Itzhak Shapira, is a Messianic...
Dalai Lamas in Hell? Continuing A Conversation
About the Image: “The Wager” by David M. Hodges, created late 1990s, updated 2013. The version of this image I recovered recently from some old Zip disks dated to 11 September 1998. The late 1990s were the time when my skeptical agnosticism was consuming...
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