Last Sunday, our pastor preached on the text about the apostles’ lottery for who would take Judas’s place among the Twelve (Acts 1:12-26). Joseph-called-Barsabbas-called Justus was the apostolic loser. Later, he couldn’t even get elected to be a Deacon! But tradition said that he would
The Secret Service is in the market for software that can detect sarcasm. That way the government agencies that monitor what you say on the internet will be able to tell whether you are joking if you threaten the president or if you really mean
More from my interview with Mathew Block, who asks how God uses our human imaginations to reach us. (more…)
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, in which the Chinese Communists crushed the pro-democracy movement that had prevailed in the Soviet Union. (more…)
More from my interview with Mathew Block, in which a question about Christians refusing to attend to music, movies, books, or the like unless they are explicitly Christian, leads to a digression on the Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms. (more…)
The children’s crusade against big government that we’ve blogged about earlier is intensifying, as kids are rebelling against the healthier lunch room fare–ignoring fruits & vegetables, protesting whole wheat facsimiles of culturally significant foods like biscuits and tortillas, and filling the garbage bins with other
A Congressional primary candidate in Arizona has changed his party from Republican to Democrat and legally changed his name from Scott Fistler to Cesar Chavez to improve his chances in the heavily-Hispanic district. (more…)
The latest Time Magazine cover story announces that “another social movement is poised to challenge deeply held cultural beliefs”; namely, that of the transgendered (men who feel they are women, and women who feel like men, often undergoing surgery accordingly). A few years ago, seminary
Congress has refused to pass legislation restricting carbon emissions, so President Obama is doing it on his own. He has decreed what is being called a “war on coal”: The Obama administration took aim at the coal industry on Monday by mandating a 30 percent
More from my interview with Mathew Block, who asks about the connection between the imagination and the fine arts. (more…)
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