When gray hair is not a crown of glory: Old age proves Rapture preachers wrong

Last updated on: January 21, 2020 at 4:19 pm By Fred Clark

Jack Van Impe started his ministry 68 years ago, assuring his followers that the Rapture and the End of Time were poised to occur at any moment. At no moment in any of those 68 years did the Rapture occur. Read more

I don’t want your money, honey

Last updated on: January 20, 2020 at 8:49 pm By Fred Clark

Here is your open thread for January 21, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves. Read more

Shine an ever-loving light on me

Last updated on: January 19, 2020 at 7:21 pm By Fred Clark

Here is your open thread for January 20, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves. Read more

Sunday favorites

Last updated on: January 19, 2020 at 2:25 am By Fred Clark

"Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed." Read more

It’s a rich man’s game, no matter what they call it

Last updated on: January 18, 2020 at 8:16 pm By Fred Clark

Here is your open thread for January 19, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves. Read more

The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle

Last updated on: January 17, 2020 at 10:24 am By Fred Clark

Here's your open thread for January 18, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves. Read more

LBCF, No. 259: ‘Calvin and Hobbes’

Last updated on: January 17, 2020 at 10:05 am By Fred Clark

The Left Behind series demonstrates why Rapture Christians like Tim LaHaye do not, and cannot, believe in democracy. Read more

Whatever I’ve got, I’m eager to lose

Last updated on: January 15, 2020 at 8:41 pm By Fred Clark

Here's your open thread for January 17, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves. Read more

The religious freedom to hold ‘a monopoly of worldly honors and emoluments’

Last updated on: January 16, 2020 at 9:28 pm By Fred Clark

"The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others." Read more

We get smaller and smaller with each passing year

Last updated on: January 15, 2020 at 8:42 pm By Fred Clark

Here is your open thread for January 16, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves. Read more

To whom did Jesus say, "Today you will be with me in paradise"?