my-road-back.blogspot.com
My Road Back: My Road Back
http://my-road-back.blogspot.com/2006/09/my-road-back.html
My Personal Journey after 9/11. Friday, September 01, 2006. Powered by Podbean.com. Had a more sophisticated and. Before I continue with my story it might be helpful if I recount some of my past and how I came to be so cynical, sardonic- and at the brink of apostasy. Liberal politically)- so loving and kind and giving of themselves, so. From what I would have expected them to be; they were. Seminar course, I quit the church in a pique of anger. But this is not yet the worst of it. My greatest shame i...
donmitchell.blogspot.com
Don Mitchell: Answer to "What Would Jesus Cut"
http://donmitchell.blogspot.com/2011/03/answer-to-what-would-jesus-cut.html
Musings on topics of Christian thought. Saturday, March 19, 2011. Answer to "What Would Jesus Cut". A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine, asking for my opinion, gave me a copy of an article by perhaps the foremost representative of the Christian left, Jim Wallis. Following is a reprint of Wallis' article with my point-by-point comments. The article will be indented in block quotes, interjected by my comments in normal text. This is Not Fiscal Conservatism. It’s Just Politics. By Jim Wallis 02-24-2011.
donmitchell.blogspot.com
Don Mitchell: More Discussions With My Buddhist Friend, Part 2
http://donmitchell.blogspot.com/2014/01/more-discussions-with-my-buddhist.html
Musings on topics of Christian thought. Sunday, January 12, 2014. More Discussions With My Buddhist Friend, Part 2. The following is part two of a protracted discussion I had on Facebook with my friend Daniel Day who is a Nichiren Buddhist. I did not define all the terms because I did not want to be long-winded. I defined "gods" and "devils" from a Buddhist viewpoint and explained why "Nichiren Buddhism" covers more than my own sect, so that covers where I used "vague". I see the law of cause and effect ...
donmitchell.blogspot.com
Don Mitchell: March 2009
http://donmitchell.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html
Musings on topics of Christian thought. Sunday, March 15, 2009. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. This simple truth, fundamental to all orthodox believing Christians is under attack as perhaps never before. A new wave of anti-theistic writers have, in the last few years, peppered the best-sellers lists with bellicose and rancorous titles such as God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. By Christopher Hitchens, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. In the s...
donmitchell.blogspot.com
Don Mitchell: The New Morality, part 1
http://donmitchell.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-morality-part-1.html
Musings on topics of Christian thought. Tuesday, May 15, 2012. The New Morality, part 1. In response to the state of North Carolina amending its constitution to preclude state recognition of any marriage other than that between one man and one woman, Christian author Rachel Held Evans published a piece on her blog which you can access here. Victory, not a cultural victory. The statistics she quotes regarding the opinions of young Americans are indicative that on the cultural front we are indeed losing.
donmitchell.blogspot.com
Don Mitchell: More Discussion With My Buddhist Friend, Part 1
http://donmitchell.blogspot.com/2014/01/more-discussion-with-my-buddhist-friend.html
Musings on topics of Christian thought. Sunday, January 12, 2014. More Discussion With My Buddhist Friend, Part 1. A few years ago, I had an online conversation with my Buddhist friend, Daniel Day that I turned into a two-part post on this blog. A couple of weeks ago, I again engaged my friend Daniel, this time on the pages of Facebook. It all started with a post of mine regarding the controversy surrounding the suspension of Phil Robertson by A&E from his show on that channel called Duck Dynasty. I don'...
donmitchell.blogspot.com
Don Mitchell: Is Socialism "Christian"?
http://donmitchell.blogspot.com/2015/07/is-socialism-christian.html
Musings on topics of Christian thought. Sunday, July 05, 2015. Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. Jesus, for instance, mentions civil courts deciding monetary disputes and warns the believer to. Also, early in Jesus’ ministry, when soldiers asked him what they should do he replied,. The Apostle Peter identifies the role of secular government this way:. Be subject ...
donmitchell.blogspot.com
Don Mitchell: January 2014
http://donmitchell.blogspot.com/2014_01_01_archive.html
Musings on topics of Christian thought. Sunday, January 12, 2014. More Discussions With My Buddhist Friend, Part 2. The following is part two of a protracted discussion I had on Facebook with my friend Daniel Day who is a Nichiren Buddhist. I did not define all the terms because I did not want to be long-winded. I defined "gods" and "devils" from a Buddhist viewpoint and explained why "Nichiren Buddhism" covers more than my own sect, so that covers where I used "vague". I see the law of cause and effect ...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT