interfaith dialog

Zuhdi Jasser: Is Enlightenment Reason-Worship Cure for Islamism?

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 23, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Random Commentary

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 Image: Islamic symbol modified for the Pious Eye site by David M. Hodges. Based upon a work by Wikimedia user DonovanCrow, used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license and available from...

Visit (to Library) Prompts Letter (to Publisher): Sikh Edition

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 14, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 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...

Just posted a comment on Craig Huey’s Site Re Jeffress, Trump, Romney

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 31, 2018 | Brief Notices, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 I just posted a comment on Craig Huey’s...

Worth Reading…with Healthy Skepticism: Carrin’s Spirit-Empowered Theology

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Aug 6, 2017 | Book (& Other) Reviews

👁 Most recently revised on 7 August 2017 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 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,...

My Sad Farewell to Reddit, with Thoughts on Faith and Experience

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 21, 2016 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Random Commentary

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 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...

Reddit Comment Posted: Faith Not Based On Experience

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 20, 2016 | Brief Notices, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 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,...

The Carson Option: Viable for Evangelicals?

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Oct 31, 2015 | Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 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...

Starting [Near] the Finish Line: [Almost] the Gospel of Grace

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 24, 2014 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere

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

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 20, 2014 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere

👁 Most recently revised on 5 July 2014 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 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...

Dalai Lamas in Hell? Continuing A Conversation

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 10, 2013 | Random Commentary

👁 Most recently revised on 5 July 2014 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 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...