Category Archives: Faith Debate

Blog posts for the Frederick Faith Debate.

Faith Debate: January 31st, 2021

Churches Should Be Open: Yes or No There are arguments on both sides, with levels of nuance abounding.  What are the scriptural considerations?  Due to outside restrictions, the regular Faith Debate roundtable discussions have been placed on hold.  Instead, we’re airing the “Lockdown Tapes – Round Two”.  (“Round One” aired last spring.) The panel: Troy Skinner. …read more »

Faith Debate: January 24th, 2021

Christian Advice for Handling Coronavirus This show picks up where the previous show left off.  The media reports are often contradictory and the claims of “science” are ever shifting.  What is a Bible believing follower of Christ to think?  What do the stats say?  What does the Scripture say? Due to outside restrictions, our regular…read more »

Faith Debate: January 17th, 2021

The Gospel and COVID This is a sort of “bridge” episode.  The first half contains the ending to the content we began covering last week.  The second half contains the beginning of the content we will be covering next week.  Last week took an up close look at the passion of Christ, as written in…read more »

Faith Debate: January 10th, 2021

Christ’s Passion Week in Mark’s Gospel We might feel mired in difficulty as we head into a new year hoping for new beginnings.  The Christian message promises new beginnings, and these blessings came about after (and because of) days that were mired in difficulty.  This show holds reminders of this teaching, drawing attention to the…read more »

Faith Debate: January 3rd, 2021

A Faith Debate Family Meeting The “Christmas shows” of the past two weeks focused on the books of Genesis and Exodus, looking at the biblical teaching about fear versus shalom.  Now, our special series of shows continues into the New Year due to the mandated restrictions which have placed our traditional roundtable discussions on hold. …read more »

Faith Debate: December 27th, 2020

Part Two: Finding Shalom Over Fear in a Tour of Exodus Mandated restrictions have placed our traditional roundtable discussions on hold.  So, as we did for the early 2020 lockdowns, now during the late 2020 lockdowns, The Faith Debate is featuring a series of special episodes that we’re playfully calling round two of “The Lockdown…read more »

Faith Debate: December 20th, 2020

Finding Shalom Over Fear By Taking a Tour Through Genesis Due to imposed restrictions, doing our typical panel discussion styled shows is problematic.  So, similar to what we did last spring, The Faith Debate is featuring a series of special episodes that we’re playfully calling Round Two of “The Lockdown Tapes”.  This one walks us…read more »

Faith Debate: December 13th, 2020

Insights on the State of Christian Movie Making from a Writer/Director Who Grew Up in Frederick The Cristiano Brothers.  The Irwin Brothers.  The Kendrick Brothers.  These tandems have come to define Christian film making in recent decades.  However, it wasn’t always this way.  What happened to the big budget blockbusters and the movies which are still…read more »

Faith Debate: December 6th, 2020

A Local Faith Based Movie Maker Shares Why and How He Made His New Film There’s a new film this year that looks a lot like a Hallmark Christmas movie – bright lighting, rich colors, snow, lots of ornaments and Christmas music – but it covers much more serious subject matter than what you’d tend to…read more »

Faith Debate: November 29th, 2020

New Movie from a Man Who Graduated from Governor Thomas Johnson High School Thomas Bonifield, who used to call Frederick home and graduated from TJ High School, is the Writer/Director of a brand new movie titled “Miracle on Christmas”.  During last week’s Faith Debate show we discussed his personal stoy, and this show transitions into…read more »