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Keith D. Stanglin “Can Christianity overcome its dogmatism without losing its identity?” A former colleague of mine once posed this question to our mutual students. It is provocative; “dogma” has been a nasty word for a long time. And the assumption among many—including many Christians—is that dogmatism is something that must be overcome. Though never put in these exact words, the underlying concern or logic apparently runs something like this: “Dogmatism is obviously evil; i

Keith D. Stanglin Dr. Jim Martin presenting at Walnut Hill Church of Christ There is no success without successors .  Well, that may not be strictly true, at least not in every case.  And it depends on the measure of success.  There can be successes here and now, regardless of what tomorrow holds.  However, to the degree that success is measured by the continuance  of a good thing, then, indeed, there are no guarantees, and there is no substitute: There is no success without

In the introduction to his treatise on the Sermon on the Mount, Augustine wrote: “If anyone will piously and soberly consider the sermon which our Lord Jesus Christ spoke on the mount, as we read it in the Gospel according to Matthew, I think that he will find in it, so far as regards the highest morals, a perfect standard of the Christian life: and this we do not rashly venture to promise, but gather it from the very words of the Lord himself. For the sermon itself is brough