Blogs I'm Reading Today: 07/16/2012

LIBERAL CHRISTIANITY, CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANITY, AND CAUGHT-IN-BETWEEN

[Rachel Held Evans]

• “Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?” – Diana Butler Bass. How can we move beyond the liberal/conservative divide in Christianity? What can those of us who feel caught “in between” do to become peacemakers and bridge builders?

LIBERALISM HAS ABANDONED CHRISTIANITY

[Resurgence | J. Gresham Machen]

• Today, we begin a seven-part series based on J. Gresham Machen’s seminal work, Christianity and Liberalism (1923). Machen was an American Presbyterian minister and professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary in the early 20th century.

THE DIM FUTURE FOR LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM

[Mere Orthodoxy | Matthew Lee Anderson]

• The leaders of the Episcopal Church and similar bodies often don’t seem to be offering anything you can’t already get from a purely secular liberalism. Which suggests that perhaps they should pause, amid their frantic renovations, and consider not just what they would change about historic Christianity, but what they would defend and offer uncompromisingly to the world. Absent such a reconsideration, their fate is nearly certain: they will change, and change, and die.

GOD AND HIS HOLINESS

[Tim Challies]

• Holiness is a difficult term to define. Most Christians know that a dimension of holiness is God’s set-apartness, his being essentially different from everyone and everything else, but there is far more to it than that.

FOUR TRANSLATIONS - - READABILITY

[Better Bibles Blog]

• Rich Shields has just blogged about testing readability in four English Bible versions: NIV2011, ESV, HCSB and GW.

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[My Disclaimer: I'm an avid reader of many diverse blogs about faith, theology and the Bible presenting a wide range of views. Occasionally I come across some blogs that are particularly interesting, insightful and thought-provoking, which I like to share and discuss with others. That doesn't mean I necessarily endorse or agree with anything or everything that the blogger has written. Always use discernment and "test all things," as the Apostle Paul says, in light of Scripture. With that in mind and the caveat that your mileage may vary, here's what I'm reading today.]