Remarks by the President at the National Prayer Breakfast

Last updated on: February 16, 2015 at 4:25 pm By Fred Clark

"Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth -- our job is to be true to Him, His word, and His commandments. And we should assume humbly that we’re confused and don’t always know what we’re doing and we’re staggering and stumbling towards Him, and have some humility in that process. And that means we have to speak up against those who would misuse His name to justify oppression, or violence, or hatred with that fierce certainty. No God condones terror. No grievance justifies the taking of innocent lives, or the oppression of those who are weaker or fewer in number." Read more

Short memory, must have a

Last updated on: February 16, 2015 at 3:11 pm By Fred Clark

Apparently something dramatic must have happened "a decade ago" in Iraq. The article doesn't say what that might have been. It doesn't say that what happened there happened with the full, enthusiastic support and advocacy of then-Rep. Frank Wolf, and of Christianity Today, and of Texas pastors like Randel Everett. It doesn't say what they all told us at the time would be the outcome of what happened more than a decade ago in Iraq, or how radically, disastrously wrong all those predictions and reassurances proved to be. Read more

Fragrant as the bottom of a locker-room broom

Last updated on: February 16, 2015 at 4:28 am By Fred Clark

Never pick a fight with a Teacher of the Year. Man who chose not to have children says the choice not to have children is selfish. Really wish people would stop saying "sacred" when they mean "sectarian." Also really wish we didn't pretend it was news when a politician trips over a word. Read more

Painful nonsense

Last updated on: February 15, 2015 at 10:45 pm By Fred Clark

He is telling us that "most of the people who have ever been born" have never been born. The word "born" cannot bear that. It will not allow itself to be used and misused in this way. We cannot make people who have never been born a subset of people who have ever been born. Neither language nor logic will allow it. Read more

‘Everybody Loves a Holy War’

Last updated on: February 15, 2015 at 2:26 pm By Fred Clark

'Everybody loves a holy war Draw the line and claim divine protection Kill the ones who show the most objection Everybody loves a holy war' Read more

Sunday WTF?

Last updated on: February 10, 2015 at 6:58 pm By Fred Clark

"If men get into a fight with one another, and the wife of one intervenes to rescue her husband from the grip of his opponent by reaching out and seizing his genitals, you shall cut off her hand; show no pity." Read more

He’s never missed a game, he never spells it wrong

Last updated on: February 13, 2015 at 4:27 pm By Fred Clark

A Southern Gospel take on a Mark Heard classic, plus some local history, the retreat from right-wing religious affiliation, RIP Dean Smith, and the Hilton heirs making the case for a larger inheritance tax. Read more

The National Prayer Breakfast is bad for the nation, bad for prayer, and bad for breakfast

Last updated on: February 13, 2015 at 2:26 pm By Fred Clark

I do not much care for the National Prayer Breakfast. This is an event at which people display their patriotism by showing their disdain for the Constitution. It's an event at which people display their piety by contradicting the words of Jesus in the Gospels. That makes the National Prayer Breakfast bad for the nation and bad for prayer. Read more

Today is Friday the 13th

Last updated on: February 12, 2015 at 8:10 pm By Fred Clark

It’s not widely discussed. Those who have witnessed it firsthand are, for obvious reasons, reluctant to talk about it. You’ll never see them publicly recounting their tales in front of the cameras and the microphones. These aren’t stories they are eager to tell. But one hears whispers ... Read more

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 20: ‘Flirting with disaster’

Last updated on: February 12, 2015 at 8:31 pm By Fred Clark

"Dozens of people on the plane have mysteriously disappeared. How many, exactly? And who were they? Hattie, the flight attendant responsible for those passengers, doesn't know. Buck, the journalist reporting on the disappearances, doesn't know." Read more

True or False: Jude mentions that the archangel Michael disputed with Satan about the body of Elijah.