Christianity and the Subversion of Just About Everything!
April 16, 2017 WN: This essay was initially written in the 1980’s while I was preparing a sermon on Romans 13. My “aha” moment is that described in the excerpt below. I’ve never seen this elsewhere in biblical scholarship. Someday a New Testament scholar may tell me it really is not good exegesis. But until […]
Christian Zionism
image above: azquotes.com WN: This was done for a new book by Ron Dart, Canadian Christian Zionism: A Tangled Tale. Of it: There has been considerable research and writing done on English, American, and German Christian Zionism, but there is a paucity of serious and substantive writing and research on Canadian Christian Zionism. This prier […]
Capital Punishment
image above: izquotes.com WN: I was invited to dialogue with Dr. Richard Land of (later) “The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission” of the Southern Baptist Convention. The dialogue was organized by the Presbyterian Church in Alaska, and took place March 22, 1997 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It was teleconferenced throughout Alaska including into […]
Atheists and “Echthrosists”
WN: I am having a bit of fun in this article… excerpts: I live in a world of functional atheists and operative “echthrosists.” What is the latter you ask? In a moment. … An atheist is one who denies [the existence of] God, from the Greek meaning literally “without God”. In my linguistic word play, […]
A Response to the Response to the Critics of the Abbotsford Airshow
WN: Many local Christians opposed opposition to the military presence at the International Abbotsford Airshow, an annual event and one of the largest in North America. This was written in response to the critics of the critics. An excerpt: The nationally and internationally popular sex trade in recent years has come under increased criticism from […]
A Halting Spiritual Quest
A Halting Spiritual Quest WN: This was given as a talk to a Mennonite Fellowship, and to a group of prison visitation volunteers; both sometime in the early 2000’s. An excerpt: As a Christian, I affirm three things in my work with prisoners. I think all Christians should! The burden of this meditation is to […]