Let's get back up to speed. "Bible prophecy" is all about the charts. Those charts promise a relentless series of exciting calamity, and these books are supposed to take us through all of those events. Yet here we are, more than 1,000 pages into this series, and we've barely budged past the first two items on the chart. Jerry Jenkins is about to double that progress -- in the least-exciting way possible. Read more
"She read it and accepted Christ. Then she gave it to her brother and he did the same. He passed it on to their four siblings and all of them accepted Christ. ... Think of it -- seven atheists won to Christ for 25 cents!" Read more
My friend walked to church despite the blizzard, only to find that services were cancelled due to the storm. He and his girlfriend and the pastor were the only ones there when another group arrived, walking through the snow-covered streets of Washington. It was a couple who lived a few blocks away, along with their teenage daughter and a couple of Secret Service agents. Read more
"For to the snow God says, 'Fall on the earth.' ... Then the animals go into their lairs and remain in their dens." Read more
Winter storm Jonas is heading this way, giving us fewer musical options than we had for Hurricane Gloria. Plus: Patreon gratitude; people who are sad about community health clinics; Planet 9 From Outer Space; and who's winning the White Evangelical Primary. Read more
Dr. Hawkins' "worship the same God" comment was in no way a violation of Wheaton's Statement of Faith -- a fact acknowledged behind closed doors even by the provost intent on punishing her for it. Her reference to Sterkfontein, however, may have been. Why, then, did Wheaton's administrators choose to make her a scapegoat on the baseless pretext of the former rather than going after her on the latter issue where they could credibly claim a more substantive case? Read more
Originally posted September 30, 2005. You can read this entire series, for free, via the convenient Left Behind Index. This post is also part of the ebook collection The Anti-Christ Handbook: Volume 1, available on Amazon for just $2.99. Volume 2 of The Anti-Christ Handbook, completing all the posts on the first Left Behind book, is also now available. Left Behind, pp. 156-159 Dirk Gently Burton, you will recall, was Buck Williams’ college roommate and is now his off-the-record source about the machinations of a powerful... Read more
Big, huge, heartfelt thanks to everyone who contributed so generously to my fundraising appeal here last week. Anyone interested in supporting this site -- and, hopefully, improving it -- might also want to check out my new Patreon page. That page is still a bit of a rough draft, but it's live. Read more
Ursula K. LeGuin reminds her local paper that public land belongs to the public. Maria Konnikova on why we fall for con games. Woody Guthrie on that racist New York slumlord Old Man Trump. And Carol Howard Merritt on the wage gap in the church. Read more
This is just a hasty, random assortment of recent news items illustrating the ongoing wave of brute stupidity and hatred toward Muslim people here in America. This is something that should be opposed by any respectable educational institution. This is something that should be opposed by any follower of Jesus Christ. This is something that should be opposed by any minimally decent person who is not a fool or an asshole. Read more
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