"Folly can be overcome, not by instruction, but only by an act of liberation; and so we have come to terms with the fact that in the great majority of cases inward liberation must be preceded by outward liberation, and that until that has taken place, we may as well abandon all attempts to convince the fool." Read more
If you're shooting a movie, you're going to have to show us the car. It will thus need to be a particular car — an actual automobile of a particular make and model, in a particular color, etc. — rather than the generic car being driven by Buck here thanks to the wholly unparticular Jerry Jenkins. Read more
The framing of this article is nonsense. There's no question whether a church full of people who don't give a withered fig about the First Commandment will really be troubled with the seventh. Read more
Deliberately blurring the lines between pro-military and pro-country is straight-up banana republic dictator nonsense. That's not something a free people can do for long if they wish to remain a free people. Read more
"Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning?" Read more
"Putin is their kind of guy. The Fellowship dates back to 1935, when founder Abraham Vereide believed God told him that Christianity had been getting it wrong for nearly 2,000 years by focusing on the 'down and out.' God, Vereide said, wanted him to build a movement for the 'up and out,' 'key men' with the power to shape whole societies." Read more
Pestering your co-workers until every interaction is fraught with an awkward tension is presented here as a badge of honor. If everyone you work with doesn't run the other way when they see you coming, then you're not sufficiently committed to evangelism. Read more
LaHaye and Jenkins' version of life, mission and ministry is neither difficult nor adventurous. It's pretty dull, actually, consisting mainly of sitting around praying and abstaining from a long list of things until finally Jesus comes back to get us before we die. Read more
A proclamation from 1886. The adjective we use for this now -- for jurisdictions committed to actually upholding the lawful rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment -- is "sanctuary." Read more
Paula White thinks breaking the law is always a sin; and that complying with the law is equivalent to being sinless. She thinks outlaws like Corrie Ten Boom, Anne Frank, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Mary Dyer, Shiphrah and Puah were all unforgivable sinners. Read more
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