Summit Ministries

A secular mentality has a stranglehold on the academy. This comes to light in a major motion picture being released Friday, April 18th. It’s called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." The film chronicles Ben Stein’s quest to find out why there is no academic freedom when it comes to discussing certain issues of science. He interviews several members of the science community and professors who have been censored, called names, shunned, and even denied tenure because they dared to question the Darwinian answer to the question of life’s origins.

While the public/media conversation regarding Barack Obama and his relationship to Rev. Jeremiah Wright has perhaps moved on for now, there are still some interesting aspects to that topic that are worth considering. As the media played (over and over again) clips of Rev. Wright in the pulpit, the term Black Liberation Theology was mentioned a number of times. That term and all that it entails probably was not familiar to most people...

On February 29th, George Weigel (author of Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action) and Philip Jenkins (author of God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis) engaged in a discussion regarding their slightly different visions...

I find that the hardest part about writing a blog entry, or any other written work, is just getting started. I have a lot of thoughts rumbling around in my head, but getting them down on paper is a challenge that often brings me to my knees (sometimes in prayer...sometimes in defeat). If I was sitting across from you at a coffee shop I would have no problem talking your ear off about whatever is the topic at hand. Fortunately for you, I'm not sitting across from you at a coffee shop talking your ear off.

It took us a while, but we have finally arrived to the world of blogging (applause, cheers, boos). We here at Summit have been working hard over the past year to plan and implement the new Summit website (let us know what you think), and one of our top priorities was to begin figuring out ways to better connect everyone associated with Summit Ministries.