Glioblastoma multiforme killed my grandmother. And then, years later, it killed my mother. That’s what this disease does. It kills people. It is, as we keep hearing today in the news, a very “aggressive” form of brain cancer. There is no cure. It is a matter of months. Perhaps a year, but not two. Read more
It’s about to be writ again
July 19, 2017 By Fred Clark 0 Comments
Is there life on Mars? Republican House member seeks answers on Mars-ghazi. Plus: Backwards-masking and the P&G rumor; the 1811 pamphleteer who blazed a trail for Charismanews; the Rule of Threes; and another reminder that requiring children to recite a daily loyalty oath is creepy. Read more
‘What made it possible for him to see?’
July 18, 2017 By Fred Clark 0 Comments
In an essay on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Stanley Hauerwas asks “What made it possible for him to see the character of the regime Hitler represented when so many others did not?” He looks for an answer in the academic theology Bonhoeffer studied in seminary, but the real answer is to be found several blocks north of there. Read more
Shaking the dust off their feet
July 18, 2017 By Fred Clark 0 Comments
In the age of Trump, John Fea writes, many “evangelicals are experiencing a crisis of faith as they look around in their white congregations on Sunday morning and realize that so many fellow Christians were willing to turn a blind eye to all that Trump represents.” And the Rev. Lawrence Ware confirms this, explaining “Why I’m Leaving the Southern Baptist Convention.” Read more
When gatekeepers attack (first-century edition)
July 17, 2017 By Fred Clark 0 Comments
Take a moment to ponder that and to consider the staggering level of hypocrisy and ingratitude it takes for Gentile Christians today to play the role of that circumcision faction. Are we so foolish? Did we experience so much for nothing? Read more
When Christian Gatekeepers Attack
July 17, 2017 By Fred Clark 0 Comments
Dave Gushee writes about last week’s Eugene Peterson debacle as someone with first-hand experience of what it’s like “When the evangelical establishment comes after you.” It’s not a pretty story. Read more
Sunday favorites
July 16, 2017 By Fred Clark 0 Comments
“Later, when Peter came to Antioch, I had a face-to-face confrontation with him because he was clearly out of line.” Read more
LBCF, No. 143: ‘Care less’
July 14, 2017 By Fred Clark 0 Comments
In order to consider such scenes on their own terms — in order to keep turning the pages without throwing this inhuman book against the wall — we end up having to accept Left Behind’s premise that trauma does not traumatize and that human suffering is peripheral, inconsequential and meaningless. This is the book’s great moral theme, its moral instruction. Read more
Eugene Peterson Gets Ciziked
July 13, 2017 By Fred Clark 0 Comments
Peterson heard the gatekeepers’ threats and, it seems, he got “The Message.” Read more
We’ll build a wall — and yeast infections will pay for it
July 12, 2017 By Fred Clark 0 Comments
Steve King wants to pay for the “border wall” by redirecting funding from Planned Parenthood. That can only mean that the wall will need to be reimbursed for providing affordable health services to anyone who needs them. And if the wall’s reimbursements depend on people being able to get there for its health services, then the border wall will need to be relocated. I like this plan. Read more
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