"Lest we should see where we are, Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good." Read more
"Lest we should see where we are, Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good." Read more
So you're sitting there across from the kid who's just done something dumb. Your role here is scriptural -- not in the sense that it's according to the scriptures, but in the sense that you're needing to say something that will be "profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness." You're concerned, in other words, not just with what this kid did, but with what this kid is becoming -- with the different kinds of person this kid could potentially become. Read more
From Honolulu Civil Beat: “I want it understood by the general public and the media that the recent inflammatory comments made by candidate for Congress (CD2) Angela Kaaihue do not represent the views, values, or the sentiments of our Party and its members,” Fritz Rohlfing said in a statement issued late Friday. “Her vulgar, racially-bigoted, and religiously-intolerant descriptions of Democratic Party candidates are offensive, shameful, and unacceptable in public discourse.” Read more
This is a thing that a lot of evangelical Christians do and that we really need to stop doing. It's an attempt to tell your story in a way that discounts and dismisses every other story. That's always a bad look and it comes from a bad place. It's the impulse that is unable to celebrate anything without simultaneously disparaging everything else that is not that thing. And it's an attempt to bolster what you're saying about what you do know by claiming to also be an expert about everything else. Read more
"But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just." Read more
Chloe's "intellectual" objections are never explained or described. The authors cannot imagine what the substance of such objections might be. Nor do they care. If those objections are intellectual, then they are anti-faith, and that is all that they or their readers need to know. Read more
Both Ryan Lochte's clumsy cover story and the media's initial credulous acceptance of it reveal our willingness to assume the worst about South America as opposed to our more civilized society here in the "real" America. That's ironic when we remember what happened when the Olympic Games were hosted here in America, in Atlanta, in 1996. A bomb planted by a right-wing, anti-abortion terrorist killed one spectator and injured 111 others. Read more
If you ask those of us who are 18-53 years old for our opinions about what life was like before we either existed or have any memory, we'll give you an answer. And that speculative, possibly even informed, opinion may mean something or other in the aggregate. Maybe it tells us something fuzzy about general optimism or pessimism. Or maybe something about the dismal state of history, social studies, civics and science education. Read more
Charisma's senior editor asks: "Is Hillary Clinton the Antichrist or an Illuminati Witch?" They report, you decide. Plus: Emails!1!; offshore wind for America; the Nephilim of Afghanistan; and Phyllis Schlafly celebrates living long enough to realize how awful her children have turned out to be. Read more
When looking for the next Niebuhr, or for the next nationally influential Christian public intellectual, for some reason, Martin Luther King Jr. doesn't count. This is never explained. We can guess at one very bad reason for why this might be so, but I suspect it's due to another, slightly less-bad reason. I'm guessing it's because Jacobs doesn't think King fits neatly into the standard mold for what he imagines a "Christian intellectual" should be. Read more
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