Morning Report, June 11: When Social Justice Becomes Your God, A Moratorium on Missions Trips, the World Cup, the Pope Begs Forgiveness, and the Dangers of Lofty Rhetoric

Last updated on: June 11, 2010 at 10:21 am By Timothy Dalrymple

Secular and Christian news and commentary that one Christian found important or entertaining this morning: 1. QUOTES AND COMMENTS. Our Cross Examinations piece on Evangelicals and Immigration Reform was quoted in the “Quotes of the Day” at Hotair.com yesterday. I’m happy for the link. It did, however, bring over some commenters who were not exactly moderate in their criticism of those in the group who advocated a more liberal position. One comment: “If you’re wondering who the 9 most moronic... Read more

Morning Report, June 10: A Divine Pint of Guinness, Gobar Gas, Why Evangelicals Love Jews, and More on Immigration, the Oil Spill, Palin, and Obama

Last updated on: June 10, 2010 at 9:48 am By Timothy Dalrymple

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Tim Challies on the Book "That Most Deeply Affected My Faith Life…"

Last updated on: June 2, 2020 at 2:48 pm By Timothy Dalrymple

Apart from the Bible, what book has most deeply affected your faith life in the past ten years? And, is there any book that few Christians read, but every Christian should read? Outstanding author and blogger Tim Challies responds. Read more

Morning Report, June 9: My Father's Advice, A Pitcher of Passion, Hatchet Jobs, and "We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat"

Last updated on: June 9, 2010 at 11:31 am By Timothy Dalrymple

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Morning Report, June 8: Baseball's Fleeting Perfection, More on John Wooden, Faith and Infidelity, and Obama the ***-Kicker

Last updated on: June 8, 2010 at 11:29 am By Timothy Dalrymple

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Morning Report: Illegal Immigration, John Wooden, Mosque at Ground Zero, and My Pet Oil Spill

Last updated on: June 7, 2010 at 11:03 am By Timothy Dalrymple

I am resuming the Morning Reports. Thus, Christian and secular news and commentary that one Christian found important or entertaining this morning: 1. MIGRATE ON OVER. Check out our new Cross Examinations, in which our regular contributors as well as specialists in the area of immigration were invited to comment on Evangelicals and Immigration Reform. We got a wide variety of responses, most of which we also featured here at the blog. Read the whole thing. 2. JESUS AS BENEFACTOR. ... Read more

More Interfaith Foxholes = Fewer Foxholes Altogether

Last updated on: May 28, 2010 at 7:05 pm By Timothy Dalrymple

J. E. Dyer, who writes on military and international affairs for the Contentions blog at Commentary magazine, and who sustains her own blog at The Optimistic Conservative, has a lovely post at Hot Air that manages to link to our recent interview of former federal appellate judge Michael McConnell as well as our recent interview with Michael Yon on the faith of our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. What struck me, though, was Dyer’s quotation from a story Ronald Reagan... Read more

Atlanta, City of Dreams

Last updated on: May 24, 2010 at 1:17 pm By Timothy Dalrymple

In my middle childhood years, the city of Atlanta held a mythical fascination for me. The reason? Atlanta would be host of the 1996 Olympic Games. Since I would be reaching the age of 20 in 1996, the Olympics in Atlanta would be the first Olympics in which I could reasonably hope to perform. I still remember, shortly after the 1996 Games had been awarded to Atlanta, attending a junior national team camp at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado... Read more

Science and Religion as "Allies and Sparring Partners"

Last updated on: May 22, 2010 at 10:47 pm By Timothy Dalrymple

Kathleen Mulhern has a lovely reflection — based on her dissertation research — on the relationship between faith and scientific reflection. My favorite part is this quotation from Maurice Blondel, a French Catholic theologian who is enjoying something of a renaissance among scholars today: “If the life of the senses leaves us with an infinite lassitude, scientific research leads to a more profound emptiness, to a collapse without remedy. To know is vain, is painful, because the knowledge brings to... Read more

Thomas Kidd on Religious Freedom and the Founding Fathers

Last updated on: May 8, 2010 at 2:07 am By Timothy Dalrymple

Governor McDonnell of Virginia recently issued a decision that police chaplains can be permitted to say the name of Jesus Christ in public prayers. Is this discriminatory? Does it amount to a state endorsement of a particular religion? Or is it merely allowing ministers the freedom to exercise their faith in their own particular forms — and refusing, in fact, to enforce a stripped-down civil religion that is more politically correct? Thomas Kidd, whose material we have published at the... Read more