Daily Thoughts on Faith, Culture and Politics from Timothy Dalrymple
The defenders of abortion “rights” are quick to decry comparisons between abortion and the Holocaust as irrational, morally monstrous and dangerous invitations to violence against abortion providers. Yet Gosnell’s house of horrors has a distinctly Auschwitzian feel about it. Baby’s feet collected in jars, dying babies flailing in toilets, playing with newborns before “snipping” their [...]
I once belonged to a church where one of the pastors, it emerged, had been abusive toward his wife. It got ugly, in part because of racial issues. It was a Chinese church and the pastor’s wife was Caucasian. Some felt the fate of their beloved church was threatened by the wife’s decision to act [...]
One of our bloggers, and one of the world’s foremost New Testament scholars, Ben Witherington, lost his daughter a year ago. It’s hard to read this as a father to a daughter, or as a father at all. But it’s good to remember how we should treasure the fleeting years we have with our children: [...]
BREAKFAST LINKS 12/31/12: Karen Spears Zacharias, Patheos/Karen Spears Zacharias: “I read recently that in tribal villages it is the wails of the mourning that alerts others in the village when someone has died. People in this country don’t give over much to wailing. We are conditioned to think that such mourning is unbecoming. I blame [...]
Dear Worship Pastor, I enjoy praise and worship. I really do. And I appreciate the enormous effort and the talent that goes into excellent worship leadership. I hesitate to admit the following, because it seems like someone with a theology doctorate ought to be motivated by more cerebral concerns, but a significant (major but not [...]
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