More Wisdom from a Dead Guy: Richard Niebuhr on "Osteenism"

By Byron Harvey / September 3, 2012 /

Whenever I see a book referred to repeatedly by other authors I’m reading, I’m usually intrigued to read it for myself. This had yielded mixed results: the book Idols for Destruction, by Herbert Schlossberg, is one such book; after seeing it referenced in so many things I was reading a few years back, I read…

2 or 3 or 4 or…17?

By Byron Harvey / September 2, 2012 /

As if this were not entirely predictable… As I have consistently said ever since I first heard the term “gay marriage” some 15-20 years ago, this argument would be inevitable, and while I could certainly be wrong about this–because we don’t adopt every silly idea that comes along the pike (remember the “nuclear freeze”?)–it seems…

The Prescient William Booth

By Byron Harvey / July 20, 2012 /

“I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.” – William Booth, Founder of the Salvation Army William Booth died nearly a century ago. His words have proven to be…

What Huffington Wouldn't Post

By Byron Harvey / July 19, 2012 /

Here, without amendment, is the original post I sent to the Huffington Post in response to this article on Chick-fil-A (Note: I’m sending the response I tried to get posted, which I had to edit a tad at the end, because apparently they have a word limit; nothing significant is changed from what I wrote.…