An excellent letter
Jul. 17th, 2008 07:57 amIt's from a librarian who was asked to reconsider a book called, "Uncle Bobby's Wedding," because a certain library patron found the subject matter unsuitable to the small children for whom the book was designed.
Here is the librarian's reply to the request for censorship. Beautiful.
Here is the librarian's reply to the request for censorship. Beautiful.
The Prosperity Gospel in Africa
Jul. 16th, 2007 03:30 pmI got this link from RealLivePreacher, for whose blog I have an RS feed. It's disturbing to say the least. I've talked about this particular heresy before. It's the Calvinist principle taken to its ultimate extreme: if you are a real Christian, God WILL prosper you, and if he doesn't, it's because you're not doing it right. Now that massive distortion of Christianity has taken root in Africa, and I have no doubt it is causing great harm there.
http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=3494
http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=3494