Muddling Toward Maturity Blog

DR. PETER JONES: "HOW DID THE EARLY CHRISTIANS OF ROME DEFEAT PAGAN SPIRITUALITY AND SEXUALITY?"

This is an outstanding lecture delivered February 25, 2010 at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C.  It's a long speech (100 minutes including Q&A), but it proved profound, insightful and timely.  It offers immense explanatory power on the contemporary rise of homosexuality and pansexuality, and the increasing marginalization of Christianity.  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

Pakistan: Jeffrey Imm's Analysis of the Crisis

Jeffrey Imm over at the Counterterrorism Blog has provided an excellent overview of the Pakistan crisis that serves as both a primer and an analytical tool.  It is loaded with lots of valuable links.  His last sentence reads:

The current situation in Pakistan illustrates the train wreck of pursuing tactical operations in fighting "extremists" without a strategy to clearly define the enemy and to define a U.S. policy on Jihad and Islamism.

HT: Michelle Malkin

CHRISTIAN REFLECTIONS ON NEO-PAGANISM

Sacred Tribes Journal has an issue devoted to paganism.   It looks very helpful.   Articles include:

Christians and the New Pagans

Contributing Factors in the Resurgence of Paganism in Western Society

A Postmodern Counter-Culture Movement: The Resurgence of Paganism in Western Society;  Neo-Paganism: Is Dialog Possible?   

Musterion:  Our Story & God's Story: Journeying with Jesus and Loving Pagans

Wiccans and Jesus: Making the Message Meaningful

Neo-Pagan and Wiccan Views of Jesus: A Reformed Christian Assessment

The Quest for a Holistic Ecological Ethic:The Pagan Challenge to Christianity

Animals Matter to God: Rediscovering Creation Guardianship

The Deeper Magic:  Paganism and Christianity in Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows and C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and That Hideous Strength 

Reading and Reference Room

The Journal also includes numerous book & film/video reviews.