Quantcast
Channel: Jonathan Miles | Midwest Christian Outreach, Inc
Browsing all 69 articles
Browse latest View live

In This Sign, Conquer

One of the weirdest stories from early church historians is the story of Constantine’s conversion. The reports differ but Eusebius says that Constantine had a vision of a cross of some sort and heard a...

View Article



Somebody Blew Up Alderaan! Now What?

By now, you’ve been inundated with stories and celebrations, celebrations and commiserations. In fact you may be feeling a bit like this: If you are a Conservative Evangelical then you’ve been seeing a...

View Article

The Last Holdouts?

In the past I have written about the moral divide between Christians and Secular worldviews. This divide can be explained in terms of worldview or culture, but I like philosopher and Christian H....

View Article

Hypocrites, A Field Guide (Part 1)

Robert Tilton, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Ted Haggard. As Sonny and Cher said, the list goes on and on (or was that the beat?).  Ah yes, the Church’s black sheep just added two more to the fold. Josh...

View Article

Making a Stink

Kim Davis, the county clerk in Rowan County Kentucky is refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The Governor of the Kentucky has ordered all county clerks to comply with the Obergefell...

View Article


Hypocrisy, A Field Guide (Part 2)

Last week I went on the record that Kim Davis should have resigned rather than go to jail. Lots of Christians disagree with me. Mike Huckabee disagrees with me. Some have even compared her stand with...

View Article

The Meal Jesus Gave Us

My church does does a few weird things that I’ve come to love. The first is that we have communion every Sunday. I know, I know. For some of you that’s not weird at all. But before I moved above the...

View Article

Orientation

 1 a :  the act or process of orienting or of being oriented b : the state of being oriented; broadly :  arrangement, alignment 2 a : a usually general or lasting direction of thought, inclination, or...

View Article


Cure All Bondages

(This originally appeared in the Summer 1999 edition of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 4) One only has to glance at (he shelves of the local Christian bookstore to surmise that the topic of...

View Article


Stuffed With Thanksgiving

As I write this, my children are laid out like cord wood in front of the TV watching what may well be one of the last bastion of Judeo-Christian public sentiment left: The Charlie Brown Thanksgiving...

View Article

I Want to Be a Toy

I think I may have found an interesting and unwitting theological analogy in Toy Story: The Land that Time Forgot. I’m sure everyone is familiar with toy story. You may have missed this 30 minute...

View Article

The Birds and the Bees with Diversities

I’m being pressured by someone to do something I’m not sure I’m ready to do. Don’t get me wrong, I want to do it because I love the person and I want to show them that I love them very much. It’s just...

View Article

Playing the Trump Card

I get it. I really do. Americans are sick of career politicians with half-answers and more flip-flopping than Waffle House on a Friday night. Trump doesn’t give half answers and when he flips, he...

View Article


1 Corinthians 5: A Proof Text for Disfellowshipping?

(This originally appeared in the Winter 2001 edition of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 13) I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; I did not at all mean with the immoral...

View Article

The King You Have Chosen for Yourselves

Russell Moore, President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said in a Washington Post op-ed recently: “The word “evangelical” has become almost meaningless...

View Article


Risen shines with Creativity and Truth

Risen starring Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love)  and directed by Kevin Reynolds (Red Dawn, Waterworld) is something rare in the rarefied air of Hollywood. A biblical film that has both style and...

View Article

Ignorance of the Infinite: Pagans, Logic and God

(This originally appeared in the Winter 2002 edition of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 10) I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalize and mythologize their science to...

View Article


Not-So-Satanic Values

Joseph Laycock in an op-ed wonders if Satanists can affect political change in society. Things just keep getting stranger and stranger. The Temple of Satan has made its fame by taking advantage of...

View Article

Christophobia

In a previous blog post, I wrote about sociologists finally recognizing that evangelicalism is viable ideology to study seriously. Well now two sociologists are studying another aspect of life that...

View Article

A Lesser of Two Weasels? Some Unsolicited Advice on Voting

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Yet another Christian has decided to tell you what and for whom to vote for? It seems these days Christians are being battered by pundits telling them what to do with their...

View Article
Browsing all 69 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images