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
"Third Isaiah" is, in fact, fightin' words in many white evangelical churches and institutions -- even though the reference is not at all controversial (we might even say "innocuous") among most evangelical clergy. This, again, reflects the gulf between what I've sometimes called the evangelical "faculty lounge" and the general evangelical populace. Evangelical leaders know many things that they cannot speak of outside of the faculty lounge. Read more
Paid sick days keep us all a lot healthier, but many employees don't get sick days because they're not technically employees -- just the exploited "independent contractors" of the growing precariat. Also: What does it mean when a governor leads a protest march at the state capitol? And RIP to Glenn Frey and to Richard Libertini. Read more
Donald Trump's clumsy proof-texting based on a half-understood concordance search showed his audience at Liberty University that he shares their hermeneutic. And his awkward failed attempts to pander to their subculture comforted Liberty students with memories of their beloved, awkwardly pandering youth ministers from church back home. Read more
"We should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search of truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it. That would be to battle not for the teaching of Holy Scripture but for our own, wishing its teaching to conform to ours, whereas we ought to wish ours to conform to that of Sacred Scripture." Read more
Wheaton College's Statement of Faith requires that its scientists maintain a pretense of official uncertainty about human origins, and that its biblical scholars maintain the same pretense of uncertainty about the genre, composition, and meaning of the Book of Genesis. These professors are, therefore, never quite allowed to teach students the whole of what they know to be true. That's not good. Read more
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