"Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love." Read more
"Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love." Read more
What popular stories deserve a place in the Sermon Illustration Hall of Fame? What hackneyed stories need to be forever-retired from all future use as sermon illustrations? And what urban legends, myths and outright lies belong on a list of the Most Outrageous Sermon Legends of All Time? What have you heard? Read more
"When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, 'Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.'" Read more
"Which wolf will win?" "The one I feed the most." I heard this story dozens and dozens of times from pulpits and in small groups and around campfires. Sometimes it was attributed to an old Indian, sometimes to an old Eskimo, sometimes it was an old African speaking to missionaries on the Dark Continent [sic]. Nope. Read more
Loretta is dealt a horrible blow by the hand of God so she rushes off to the church to apologize, to say she's sorry for what she made him do and to promise that she'll never make him lose his temper like that again. Read more
The surprising thing about the 2016 presidential campaign so far is the strange absence of time-travelers from the future arriving in a desperate bid to stop Donald Trump from becoming president. This would seem to prove that either: A) Trump is going to lose in November; or B) time travel is impossible and will never be invented. Read more
An election-year reminder from Harold Pollack and Tony Kushner. "Listen, here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future." Read more
Yes, steroids account for much of the home-run surge in the Major Leagues in the 1990s, but this rewriting of the record books also happened just after baseballs themselves physically changed. That change wasn't due to steroids, but to the anti-labor practices of multinational corporations and to the clash between liberation theology and American colonialism. Also: "Confederate Flag Day" in Gettysburg; David French hates poor people; the future of the Sanders revolution; and William Henry Harrison -- the musical. Read more
Marco Rubio got it backwards in his concession speech when he warned that "the politics of resentment" could produce "a nation where people literally hate each other because they have different political opinions." It's the other way around -- those politics of resentment means that those political opinions are the result of people literally hating each other. Read more
Rick Scarborough seems shocked that many white evangelical Christians have had abortions or know someone who has. He regards this as a sudden and very recent development. It's not. These folks have always been there -- in white evangelical churches and institutions. Read more
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