There was absolutely nothing about this crime scene that should have made any police officer or journalist imagine that this crime had anything to do with Presbyterianism at all. That's just a nonsense claim fabricated out of whole cloth by a panicked sheriff who seems utterly ignorant about Presbyterianism and Presbyterians. Read more
• Another big steaming pile of Bal Tashchit. • Peter Enns has been one of my favorite bloggers on Patheos’ evangelical channel, and I’m sad to see him go, even though he’s a Yankees fan. But I’m also excited to see what he has in store for us at his new site — peteenns.com, “The Bible for Normal People.” At the top of Enns’ new site he features a rotating set of quotes from his books, including this one from... Read more
"The commandments -- 'You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet”,' and any other commandment -- are summed up in this word, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law." Read more
This is a tricky question. This photo is, potentially, going to appear in the newspaper and on the evening news, where it will likely be seen by potential jurors in your eventual trial. You don't want to come across looking guilty, but then, if you wind up getting convicted, you don't want to appear glib or remorseless either. Read more
"After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages ... eating delicious pancakes." Remembering the I in IHOP. Plus: The Stone Age lasted longer than a few generations; Alabama police should choose a more honest Beatitude; and say hello to the Gerry Adams of Operation Rescue. Read more
A better presumption, I think, is to assume these storytellers recognized what they were doing and did it deliberately and that something else is going on other than an attempt to provide harmonious, wholly consistent stories that would satisfy the modern sensibilities of readers 2,500 years later. To understand the stories they told, we need to understand the choices they made in telling those stories. We can't do that if we presume that they never made choices, only mistakes. Read more
Why studying biology with the anti-science cynics of Wheaton College makes as much sense as studying medicine with the anti-vaxxer Catholic bishops of Kenya. Plus: Devils and aliens in Roswell and in print; what it looks like when you sell your soul; and a wrestling legend runs out of chewing gum for the last time. Read more
"The woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing." Read more
LaHaye and Jenkins paint a disturbingly accurate portrait of a the kind of predatory, exploitative married man that young women would be wise to stay away from, yet they seem to think they're describing the kind of homewrecking young woman that married men ought to stay away from. Read more
The main problem with "sharing our faith" is that faith is not the main thing we should be sharing. It's not the main thing at all. It's not the point, not the focus, and making it our point and our focus in evangelism sends us way off track. Evangelism should be about sharing the greatest of these, the more excellent way. Read more
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