Why Support Adoption?

Posted: October 1, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Adoption, Questions & Answers, Together for Adoption | Leave a comment

Question: Why should Christians consider supporting an organization that equips Christians to think theologically about adoption but does not directly provide humanitarian aid to orphaned children?

Answer: Planting Gospel Seeds

Tony Jones on Abortion and Obama

Posted: October 1, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Questions & Answers, Tony Jones | Leave a comment

Question: What does Tony Jones think about Obama & Abortion?

Answer: There has been a robust conversation in the comments section of my previous post on abortion.  There are clearly some policy wonks who read my blog, and I’m not one of them.  I mean, I’m not a policy wonk; not that I don’t read my blog.  Anyway, I appreciate those of you who can quote particular pieces of legislation and particular votes.  My interest is more on the overarching principles at hand, although it does seem to me that BO made it abundantly clear that his most odious vote to pro-lifers was because he thought the bill would be struck down as unconstitutional (HT: Keith).

I am thankful that my friend, Carla Jo, fought the good fight in the comments.  For those of you who don’t know her, CJ has a raft of evangelical credentials.  In other words, she’s no leftist idealogue.  She’s simply trying to deal with the complexity of the issue — I must say, much as BO does.

And I am particularly indebted to the two women who posted about their own abortions.  In the wake of that terrible decision, they’ve come to different conclusions about the issue, but their journeys to those conclusions, IMHO, seem a lot more honest than some others who commented.  Honestly, I cannot imagine either of them, though they stand on different sides of the debate, referring to someone as a “faggot” or “callous, selfish, and unrepentant.”

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The Catholic Gospel

Posted: October 1, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Catholic questions on the Gospel, Questions & Answers, The Gospel | 4 Comments

Question: What is really the Catholic gospel?

Answer: The word Gospel usually designates a written record of Christ’s words and deeds. It is very likely derived from the Anglo-Saxon god (good) and spell (to tell), and is generally treated as the exact equivalent of the Greek euaggelion (eu well, aggello, I bear a message), and the Latin Evangelium, which has passed into French, German, Italian, and other modern languages. The Greek euaggelion originally signified the “reward of good tidings” given to the messenger, and subsequently “good tidings”.