Thanks for visitng Clapham Community. Be sure to link here and tell your friends about us.“If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.”
- Martin Luther
Should believers in Jesus Christ have a different view [...]

Up until a month and a half ago I had never watched an episode of Lost. I have a very close friend who is like a brother to me who loves the show and convinced me to watch it. I reluctantly went to Blockbuster and rented a couple of episodes and just like that I [...]

Let me first apologize for the infrequency of my posts of late. I have had some health difficulties of late that have kept me from posting. I hope this hasn’t scared away the brave few who follow this humble little blog.
In my last post, I posed a question about Christian community and what it is. [...]

What is Christian Community? How do we define it? practice it? Is it something that a majority of local churches do well? Is it a priority? Does it matter?
I know that this is a lot of questions but I think we need to be asking them. I am curious to see what kind of responses [...]

Is it possible that religion doesn’t hold the patent on fundamentalism? A look into the study of religion at Harvard University might lead you to think so. In a recent Newsweek article entitled Harvard’s Crisis of Faith author Lisa Miller documents how religion as an academic discipline has become intolerable. So intolerable in fact that [...]

I have posted many things about Planned Parenthood but this tops the list. According to a report released by the International Planned Parenthood Federation children as young as 10 years old should receive sex instruction. The report states:
“Young people’s sexuality is still contentious for many religious institutions. Fundamentalist and other religious groups — Catholic Church [...]

“The true means of being misled is to believe oneself finer than the others.”
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have always felt that liberals were arrogant and condescending. My feelings were not based on any poll but on observation and anecdote. In my mind I had created generalities, liberal straw-men, and caricatures that caused me to distrust [...]

The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. [...]

C.S. Lewis and Christianity fit nicely together in the same sentence. One of his most beloved works is even called Mere Christianity. The irony of Lewis is that were he alive today he would be the last person that you would suspect as an evangelical Christian. To read Lewis seeking doctrinal instruction is a fools [...]

Tim Tebow is a champion on and off the field. The son of missionaries to the Philippines, Tebow is the football phenomenon that almost wasn’t. During her pregnancy, Tebow’s mother Pam was informed that she had contracted dysentery from bad drinking water and that her child would be severely handicapped. She was advised to abort [...]