A Close Reading of Mark Driscoll’s Tweet

January 22, 2013 By 2 Comments

David Hayward has offered a detailed analysis of Mark Driscoll’s tweet, which I blogged about yesterday. What do you think? Does he accurately get at the meaning of the short statement and the assumptions behind it?

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I Swear on a Stack of Bibles

January 21, 2013 By 2 Comments

Until I saw this photo, I thought that “I swear on a stack of Bibles” was just an expression… The Bibles belonged to Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr., and so it is understandable that president Barack Obama chose to use them when taking the presidential oath. But still…that just makes it two Bibles [...]

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Green Lantern

January 30, 2012 By 3 Comments

It seems as though all the recent superhero movies begin with theology. Green Lantern is no exception: the opening monologue speaks of a race of immortals who oversee and work to protect the universe. If that isn’t theology, nothing is. I suspect that many of us who are not regular readers of classic comic books [...]

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