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With just one arm

November 20, 2018 By Fred Clark

The Southern Strategy, the Bible professor behind a racist slimeball political attack, and a local DA who seems to idolize Frank Rizzo. (Plus more from Fang Fang and from the Apostle Paul — at the same time.) Read more

‘I would they were even cut off which trouble you’

November 19, 2018 By Fred Clark

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That micromaniacal focus on the letter of the law, Paul says, causes them to miss the “greater glory,” making them “incompetent” for the new thing the gospel is perpetually bringing about — a ministry “not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” Read more

Titus was not compelled to reparative therapy

November 19, 2018 By Fred Clark

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This dispute in Galatians 2 precisely parallels the current dispute within what we now call the “church” over the unqualified welcome and full equality of LGBT+ Christians. Read more

Sunday favorites

November 18, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Galatians 2:1-10 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. I went up in response to a revelation. Then I laid before them (though only in a private meeting with the acknowledged leaders) the gospel that I proclaim among the outsiders, in order to make sure that I was not running, or had not run, in vain. But even Titus, who was with me, was not compelled to act like an insider,… Read more

LBCF, No. 210: ‘The second-biggest story’

November 16, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Buck Williams was hand-picked by the Antichrist to be the sole journalist at the birth of the New World Order. But it turns out that while Buck was useful for help burying stories, he’s of no use for actually reporting them. Read more

Religious-right ‘prophets’ say Trump will cure cancer

November 15, 2018 By Fred Clark

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We now have at least two white evangelical “prophets” teaching that some evil cabal of “Them” is keeping a secret cure for cancer from the public. It would be funny if the implications weren’t so potentially deadly. Read more

I’m going to heaven on a rocket ship

November 13, 2018 By Fred Clark

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“We can foresee almost no circumstances at this point that would intervene in the mutual love affair — the equally yoked relationship — between white evangelicals and Trump.” White evangelicals and Trump are a romance for the ages, like Ahab and Moby Dick. Read more

You’re fighting with a ghost

November 12, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Holiday greetings from Kurt Vonnegut, Jim Wright, Eric Bogle, Wislawa Szymborska, and Fang Fang. Read more

Sunday favorites

November 11, 2018 By Fred Clark

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“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” Read more

LBCF, No. 209: ‘Skip verse 10’

November 9, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Martin Luther believed in the doctrine of grace. Buck, LaHaye and Jenkins believe in believing in the doctrine of grace. RTCs are not real, true Christians because of the grace of God — they are real, true Christians because their sentiments are aligned with the correct side of the argument about the role of God’s grace in salvation. Read more