Note to President Obama. For Muslims worldwide, actions speak louder than words. There has been a lot of speculation about how President Obama's speech in Cairo will impact U.S./ Muslim relations. In this article, author Aaron D. Taylor offers praise, criticism, and thoughts into how the Muslim world will react.Keywords:
Aaron Taylor, President Obama, speech, Cairo, Iraq, Afghanistan, religious freedom, muslim women, Netanyahu, settlements Early Christians' views on war, power, and politics How does Western Christianity today match up with the vision of the earliest known Christians? In this article, author Aaron D. Taylor reveals a shocking truth that the earliest Christians were far more radical than many of us realize.Keywords:
Aaron Taylor, peace, military service, Origen, Marcus Aurelius, early Church, Encyclopedia of Religion, war, political office The line between truth and hate speech is sometimes blurry Where is the line between truth and hate speech? In this article, author Aaron D. Taylor tackles tough issues on both sides of the political aisle with this question in mind.Keywords:
Aaron Taylor, hate speech, Zionists, Palestinian, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, Palestinian, Christian Zionism, progressive evangelicals Note to missionary critics. The persecution of Christians in Mauritania is a human rights issue Mauritania is a land of striking beauty. With sand dunes lined against the sky, Bedouins riding camels in the countryside, and flying beetles that look like they come straight from the abyss of the Apocalypse; Mauritania is a land of extremes-extreme beauty, extreme hospitality, and lately, extreme religion.Keywords:
Aaron Taylor, Chris Leggett, Michael Jackson, Huffington Post, Mauritania, Al Qaeda, religious extremism, persecution, human rights On behalf of my fellow Christians, I apologize In the Pentecostal Christian tradition, there's a practice that has gained some ground over the past few years called identificational repentance. Taken from the examples of men like Daniel and Nehemiah in the Hebrew Scriptures (also known as the Old Testament), identificational repentance is when a group apologizes for the sins of its ancestors or when an individual apologizes for the sins of his or her family, church, or nation.Keywords:
Aaron Taylor, identificational repentance, Augustine, Luther, Calvin, just war, pacifists, tv evangelists, Jewish settlements, Jesus, Constantine A health care whistle-blower and a call to Christian accountability Wendell Potter worked for 15 years as the head of public relations for CIGNA, one of the largest health insurance companies in the U.S. Wendell's job was to keep high profile complaints from becoming major news stories. So when policy -holders were denied care or were kicked out of the plan for getting sick, Wendell's job was to make sure that the fewer the people who knew about it, the better.Keywords:
Aaron Taylor, Wendell Potter, CIGNA, health care reform, Matthew, corporate greed, church discipline, Wise West Virginia, Jesus, New Testament, excommunication The ACLJ and Israeli war crimes, who's imagining what? A few days ago I received a mass e-mail from the ACLJ. For those that don't get their daily dose of Christian talk radio, ACLJ stands for the American Center for Law and Justice. Think of the ACLJ as the conservative Yin to the liberal ACLU Yang.Keywords:
Aaron Taylor, ACLJ, Goldstone report, nationalism, Israeli war crimes, Gaza, Christian talk radio, human rights abuses, Palestinians, ACLU Billy Graham and theological humility, will the next generation follow in his foosteps? While I'm looking forward to the Innovative Evangelism Conference next week, I think a serious reflection on the man that most of us attending the conference draw the bulk of our inspiration from-Billy Graham-is in order.Keywords:
Aaron Taylor, Billy Graham, fundamentalism, theological liberalism, evolution, intelligent design, Nixon, Vietnam War, Next Generation Alliance, agnostic, unevangelized Dinesh D'souza, the New Atheism, and Constantinian Christianity Last week at the Innovative Evangelism Conference I got a chance to hear Dinesh D'Souza speak to a standing room only crowd. Dinesh D'Souza is a renowned Christian apologist known for taking on the proponents of the New Atheism (people like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens). He's also one of America's most influential conservative thinkers.Keywords:
Aaron Taylor, Dinesh D'souza, New Atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, the Inquisition, Crusades, apologetics, intelligent design, irreducible complexity, Constantine Obama's escalation in Afghanistan, should Christians take a side? On the eve of the election last November, I wrote a thinly-veiled endorsement of Barack Obama and blasted it out to my friends and family. Now after listening to President Obama's speech trying to sell the American people on his decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan, there's a verse of Scripture that's taken on a profound new significance, 'Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man in whom there is no help' (Psalm 146:3).Keywords:
Aaron Taylor, Obama, Afghanistan, Manhattan Declaration, progressive evangelicals, Karzai, Jesus, abortion, gay marriage, love your enemies, trust not in princes Hurray to Rick Warren for denouncing Uganda's anti-gay law, but where are other Christians? As a career missionary to Africa, I fear what would happen to me on judgment day if I didn't speak out against what is happening in Uganda right now in the name of Christ. I was in the middle of typing my monthly newsletter when I decided to check my e-mail. The subject line read, 'Pastor Rick Warren condemns Uganda anti-homosexuality bill.'Keywords:
Aaron Taylor, Rick Warren, Uganda, anti-gay law, T D Jakes, Reinhard Bonnke, Benny Hinn, homosexuals, pastors, missionaries, evangelists Obama's Nobel speech, what did we expect? I didn't get a chance to watch Barack Obama's Nobel speech live, but I've read the transcript and found very little in the speech that couldn't have been given by any number of past presidents-including George W. Bush.Keywords:
Aaron Taylor, Obama, Nobel speech, Afghanistan, Martin Luther, Protestant Reforamtion, John Howard Yoder, war, George W Bush, Christians Adventures in parenting, the day I brought my newborn home Sleep, oh sleep, where art thou? My wife and I's first child, Christian David Taylor, was born last week on Tuesday January 5th. I've been told by the sum total of everyone I've ever met that having children is going to drastically change my life.Keywords:
Aaron Taylor, sleep, parenting, spiritual enlightenment, heavenly Father, children
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