by Chuck Queen | Sep 5, 2013 | Opinion
Reza Aslan’s basic thesis in his book “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” is that Jesus was a failed revolutionary who was willing to use violence to overthrow the political and religious order to bring in God’s kingdom. Aslan...
by Chuck Queen | Aug 7, 2013 | Opinion
One of the frequently misused teachings of Jesus involves his instruction to ask, seek and knock in Luke 11:9-13. There are Christians who treat this as magical, like a genie in a bottle, or as mechanistic, like putting money in a vending machine. They think that if...
by Chuck Queen | Apr 1, 2013 | Opinion
In St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin hangs an ancient door with a rough hewn, rectangular opening hacked out in the center to commemorate a significant event. In 1492, two prominent Irish families, the Ormands and Kildares, were in the midst of a bitter feud....
by Chuck Queen | Mar 20, 2013 | Opinion
In his letter to the church at Philippi, it is fairly obvious that Paul is concerned about some influences that were steering the church away from the teaching he had imparted and the example he had modeled. It seems that there were two different kinds of pressure...
by Chuck Queen | Jan 30, 2013 | Opinion
In his book “Letters to a Young Doubter,” William Sloan Coffin says that when he was chaplain at Yale, he would get requests from seniors to write a letter of recommendation to some “highfalutin” school like Harvard Law or Columbia Medical...
