Blog reviews on the Church of Scotland's shift to allowing gay ministers...

Here are some useful blog summaries I recommend:

http://www.standrewsblantyre.com/index.php/about-us/our-minister/peters-blog/1181-something-for-everyone

http://oldhighststephens.com/2013/05/21/general-assembly-how-did-the-vote-for-gay-clergy-happen/

Here is a moving sermon following the GA discussion: http://www.standonline.org.uk/church/view_video_290412

Conservative... Evangelical... Christian?

There once were Christians.  Then, skip forward a few hundred years... there were Evangelical Christians.

The noun was Christian, the adjective was Evangelical.

Then the adjective slowly became the noun, as we spoke of Evangelicals.

And now there are Conservative Evangelicals, where the adjective is Conservative and the noun is Evangelical.

I wonder what the next stage in the Evolution of our constant attempt to redefine ourselves (usually by comparison to another "outgroup") will be?

And what about the other end of the spectrum?  We had Liberal Christians, who are now just Liberals.  Are there different types of Liberals in the same way there are different types of Evangelicals?

But most intriguingly, it's no longer suitable to say "I'm a Christian".  We now seem to need to ask "what kind of Christian are you?".  And that, is sad.  You see, we're dropping the word Christian ever so slowly.

Like or Dislike

I've just added "like" and "dislike" reaction buttons to each post.  Please do give a reaction if you have one.  If I need another category other than like/dislike then let me know!  If you choose dislike (or even like) then I'd love to know more, so please feel free to comment.