Pisteuomen - πιστευομεν - T. Michael W. Halcomb

Well, that's what Asbury Theological Seminary's president, Dr. Tim Tennent, suggests. But probably not for the reasons you might expect. Anyway, you can check out the 4-part review of Bell's Love Wins at Tennent's blog by clicking the following link (only the first part is posted so far): Tennent's Blog . In my opinion, it is this type of fair-handed treatment that Christians should be offering up, not the reductionistic, judgmental, close-minded and hateful reviews/interviews like those HERE and HERE .

The last couple of days, the Bell-Bashir Battle Royale video has been floating around the internet. Unfortunately, for the last 7 days I have been incredibly ill, so, I've missed a lot of the conversation. I've barely been able to follow the Tsunami, which is quite a bigger deal, I think, at the moment. Actually, in the Bashir interview, that's the first thing Bashir asks Bell about; he wants to know if God had some kind of hands-off, hands-on role in the whole thing and whether or not God is culpable either way. Sticking with the overall tenor of the video for a moment, I really think Bell and Bashir are interesting to watch. Bashir just comes out swinging from question #1 and really, honestly, I think that Bashir's "isn't it...isn't it" forceful type of questions are quite frankly, unfair. Why? Well, I see in them every bit of our world's love for reductionism. What I mean by that is the desire to want to whittle everything down, to reduce eve...