The best the reader can manage is to feel a measure of pity for four characters so earnestly desiring to be liked but so confused about what might make them likable — so intent on being admired, but so utterly clueless as to what is admirable. Read more
Carl Henry didn't like having to tell Frank Gaebelein not to praise the Civil Rights marchers. Ken Wilson's former Vineyard colleagues didn't enjoy having to tell him to be cruel. But they did it anyway because the people who write the checks demanded it. Read more
Here my imagination fails me. I have never seen such a thing. The real world has never seen such a thing on any meaningful scale. Is it even possible? I don't know. Read more
"Love worketh no ill to its neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." Read more
Who gives a withered fig about reputation? Whitefield’s reputation doesn’t matter. Our “stance” regarding Whitefield’s reputation doesn’t matter. Whether or not Whitefield and Edwards should be “forgiven” and whether or not we personally should “forgive” them is a sleight-of-hand distraction from what really matters here. Read more
Our story takes us back to the airport, where no one seems the least bit jittery about getting back on a plane, even with the cracks and scorch marks still visible on the tarmac from the very recent catastrophe involving dozens of crashes. Read more
The gospel itself, Jubilee, is a kind of holy prank. "Discipleship" means, among other things, that you are now in on it. Read more
Just because the big key change in a song is cheesy, predictable, and nakedly manipulative doesn't mean it won't still get to you. Plus: Biblical literacy, an unlikely senator, and Satan's busy year. Read more
You know who's smart? Janelle Wong, Terese Marie Mailhot, William Barber, Lili Loofbourow, and Simran Jeet Singh. And they all have some smart things to say. Read more
Sometimes I have to tease out the pattern, to search the subtext and read between the lines in order to detect the ever-near shadow of the Satanic baby-killer disease that has, for centuries, been the enabling excuse used to justify and rationalize and defend oppression, recasting injustice as a sacred duty and a badge of pious virtue. Read more
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