By Ron Halbrook Faith is exalted in Modern religion as a great benefit but the object of faith need not be true, it is argued. Hocking argued, But with the conception of reverence for reverence we arrive at liberalism within religion. At the same time, the principle of reverence for reverence establishes the liberal attitude toward …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
From Where I Stand
By Irven Lee My high school class celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in May of this year. As I look back down the hill it seems that that diploma was given to me only a little while ago. I lacked a few weeks being sixteen, and I weighed about sixty-five pounds less than my. present weight of …
Who Are The Unchurched?
By Mike Willis Approximately 80 million Americans, roughly 40% of the total .population, do not consider themselves members of any church (J. Russell Hale, Who Are The Unchurched?, p. 2). Several sociologists have undertaken the task of defining who the unchurched Americans are and what they are like (see Hale’s study, also see David A. Roozen, …
Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged (3)
By Ben M. Shropshire In our previous articles on this subject we .showed that Christians are required by God to do certain kinds of judging, none of which are in violation of Matthew 7:1-5. Then we showed the kind of judging which Jesus forbids in this passage; that is, judging in which we use our own …