Jeremy Riley: In a few words

Over the Easter weekend, my wife and I were out of town up at her folks house.  With our afternoon arrival, we decided to go to a Good Friday service later that evening.  Noticing that there were no Anglican churches in this city, I recommended that we attend the Episcopal service at 7 in their [...]

The master of stopping the spin, Bill O’Reilly, made the statement on his show recently that Christianity was not a religion but was a philosophy.  Previously I have corrected dear Evangelical friends who would state that Christianity was not a religion but was only a relationship.  So for the purposes of this post, I think [...]

Seminary is tough. I don’t mean just the assignments, tests, papers, and other work.  I mean the work of actually digging into Scripture and the faith, taking an honest look into it, and wrestling with tough issues.  Looking over the breadth of Biblical Studies and Church History as disciplines can cause discomfort. Big words like [...]

I was talking with a friend this week about the dangers and benefits of apologetics (defense of Christianity).  If you were raised in an Evangelical church or household, chances are you were given the answers to many questions that you might encounter when it came to talking about Christianity.  While the answers might be helpful, [...]

I stumbled upon this question on a website and was stunned by the findings: Q. What is the ultimate origin of moral value? Final Results 200 user(s) polled. 1. God 17.5% 2. Nature 23% 3. Culture 38% 4. Other 21.5% The reason that I found this astounding is because the implications of this are so [...]

I recently finished a book for a class in seminary that is entitled “Fundamentalism and American Culture.”  In it, scholar George Marsden paints the historic rise of fundamentalism in American society, tracing it back to the 19th Century and moving it up to nearly modern day.  In his concluding thoughts of modern-day fundamentalism (read: Religious [...]

America is a Hindu nation. That is what a Newsweek poll discovered last summer. Even Evangelicals believe certain tenets that run contrary to the very core of being Evangelical. I am not writing about disagreements between Calvinism and Arminian or Traditional music and contemporary music, I’m talking about a denial of key doctrines like the [...]