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Q & A: Brit Hume
News, Culture, Society
Written by holmegm   
Wednesday, 20 January 2010 13:28

From Christianity Today:

Hume spoke to Christianity Today about his faith and the criticism in response to his suggestion to Woods.

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holmegm   |2010-01-20 13:33:19
Yes, we usually post "mainstream news" stories, but, well, use your head as to why this is an exception :)


(though I will laboriously explain it if anyone really wants me to ;) )
holmegm   |2010-01-20 14:25:04
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Some people might say, "What about Christians like Ted Haggard or Mark Sanford?"

I don't think I would blame Christianity for the failings of people like that. Christianity is the right religion for people like that. Christianity is a religion for sinners. Christianity is not about the salvation of perfect people. Christianity is a way for people who are not perfect to be saved. What Mark Sanford needs is not less Christianity. He needs more of it.
SteveGus   |2010-01-20 16:36:21
But he also said ---

So my message to Tiger would be, Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.

At least to my eyes, that sounds like a claim that "Christianity is more effective against adultery than Buddhism."

I'm not sure how rhetorically effective a call to repentance stated in those terms is. It's a claim that invites testing. If Islam is more effective against adultery than Christianity -- and some brands at least appear to be more strenuously against it -- does that mean we're expected to switch brands?

It sets up potentially testable claims in other ways. Suppose Woods is baptized, and backslides on this. His "total recovery" is for all that anyone else can tell a failure.  The original claim seemed to be putting God to a test.
emperorbma   |2010-01-20 18:02:53
I get your criticism, he shouldn't be acting as if the test of faith is its effectiveness in curing [insert random condition]. (Testing God as at Meribah) On the other hand, God does specifically teach that we should be willing to step forward and trust in His Providence. If it is an exhortation to the latter, I cannot see the former criticism applying.
laika   |2010-01-20 23:59:01
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I certainly expected this. I'm nowhere near the first Christian to be mocked for his faith.


and there's the ever popular persecution angle. he seems reluctant to consider that it might not be his faith that's being mocked.

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I don't want to practice a faith that I'm afraid to proclaim. I don't want to be a closet Christian. I'm not going to stand on the street with a megaphone.


i'd hesitate to mock the megaphone approach; the first century equivalent approach was good enough for the Founder of the faith that you want to proclaim.

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Think of how many times we've seen an athlete interviewed on the sidelines of a football game who says he owes it all to God or owes it all to Christ, and the weird silence that greets those statements. People are uncomfortable with it. People don't want to talk about it. Politicians who proclaim their faith, the next question is about something else.


the weird silence seems appropriate in the context of the situation, and the response from the sportscasters would doubtless be the same if Satan were credited as the power behind the touchdown.

stay tuned for the next manufactured Fox News culture wars controversy?
PineHall  - Side Topic: Home Churches   |2010-01-23 10:56:56
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Do you attend a church in D.C.?

A lot of the worship I do is in home church and Bible study. There's a regular journalists' group that meets. There's also a group we're meeting this weekend at our place in Virginia, a group of families that meet for home church. There's a minister and his wife who lead it, and we like it.

Do you have a pastor or mentor?

I do. Jerry Leachman. He leads men's Bible study groups all over the Washington area.

Home churches is suppose to be a trend. I find it interesting that Brit Hume attends one. It is opposite of the megachurch trend. (Though megachurches are typically very into small groups.) Will home churches become more popular or is it just a passing fad?
laika   |2010-01-23 17:14:54
PineHall wrote:
Will home churches become more popular or is it just a passing fad?


yes to both parts of your question.
PineHall  - You got me   |2010-01-24 21:15:20
LOL! At our house, when we say yes to an either-or question, we say that is the "Lutheran Answer". I thought I had an either-or question but I see that is not quite the case.
emperorbma   |2010-01-24 22:18:59
Heh, "both-and answers" wasn't ever really a sole purview of Lutherans. (Zen Buddhists use them a lot, also, oddly enough) The main reason we identify with it so much is because we have about 999 doctrinal reasons why we prefer those kinds of answers to "only one or the other."

Law or Gospel? Yes.
Faith or Works? Yes.
Free Will or Predestination? Yes.
Christ: God or Man? Yes.
Christian: Sinner or Saint? Yes.
Lord's Supper: Body and Blood or Bread and Wine? Yes.
Church: Visible or invisible? Yes.
Substitutionary atonement or Christ as Victor over sin? Yes.
Scriptural Authorship: Divine or human? Yes.
[... actually, it's harder to find something we don't do that with]
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