"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." Read more
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." Read more
Since Hollywood is putting out a new movie to celebrate 11 years of Left-Behind blogging, let's get retro. Here's a chance for new comment threads on old posts. Back where we started from, here we go 'round again. Book 1. Pages 1-3. Read more
Action News -- and the Jay-walking embarrassments they find to contribute to their ignoramus-on-the-street interviews -- only imagine this is news because of the unspoken, and false, assumption that governs this "report." That assumption is that there is no such thing as a non-Christian, only an anti-Christian. And, therefore, anything that is not an enthusiastic endorsement must be a vicious attack. Read more
Lt. Col. William J. Astore (USAF, ret.) on the American cult of bombing; James Woods (not that one) responds to an anti-abortion survey; Amy-Jill Levine on the parable of the son who refused to be taken in; Josh Marshall reminds us that the Reformation was a bloody mess; and Rachel Held Evans on the big sins crippling the white evangelical church. Read more
Wednesday turtle-blogging, plus some links, including special guest appearances by Dr. Rieux, Sandy Koufax, Mike Piazza, Cardinal Bernardin and John Malkovich. Read more
This stock scene is familiar -- we already know how it's supposed to go and where we're supposed to feel the beats of suspense. That lets readers connect the dots, volunteering the emotional response it seems Jerry Jenkins was trying to elicit. But while we're still the ones who have to connect those dots, Jenkins has, for once, supplied just enough of them for us to be able to make those connections. So compared to most of what we're reading in these books, this section is relatively successful. Relatively. Read more
Look at a newspaper from 100 years ago and you'll realize that lurid freak-shows and quack remedies have always helped to fund the business of journalism. Whatever value real reporting and real journalism has had to offer, it's always been propped up, in part, by snake-oil and side-boobery. Read more
American evangelicals changed the way they answer the question "Who do we say that we are?" And that means, inevitably, that they have also -- consciously or not -- changed the way they answer the question "Who do you say that I am?" For Christians, that's a rather important question. Changing our answer to that bedrock question shouldn't be something that happens without serious, conscious consideration. And yet that's what happened. Read more
Every religion worth anything addresses this dilemma in two ways. First by requiring that its adherents practice both charity and justice here in this life. And second by extending the hope that such unfairness will ultimately be rectified, if not in this world, then in the next. When religion goes awry or becomes corrupt, it often results from or results in an emphasis on one of those two aspects to the neglect of the other. Read more
Persecuted American Christians flee to Pharaoh's Palace; "people need to be alarmed;" and I was hungry, and you gave me really good calzones. Read more
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