"We’ve given each other some hard lessons lately But we ain’t learnin’ We’re the same sad story that’s a fact ..." Read more
"We’ve given each other some hard lessons lately But we ain’t learnin’ We’re the same sad story that’s a fact ..." Read more
I can't even imagine what it would be like to attempt such a lie. Try to picture doing this. You walk up to another person, you look them in the eye, human face to human face, and you say, "You do not exist." In what universe can you imagine that such a lie could ever be persuasive? What is the expectation there? Is the other person supposed to just blink out of existence? Read more
I am elliptically grateful to Scot McKnight for helping to clarify what I find so bewildering in some of my fellow Christians. It is this notion that God's love must be "balanced" somehow against God's holiness. Holiness is thus perpetually invoked as a "yes, but ..." qualifier, setting a boundary on love -- on God's love and our own. Holiness, we are constantly being told, sets limits on love. Read more
The diligent researchers at Deadspin have now provided scientific confirmation of our fair city's strange immunity to cinematic destruction. Their interactive map, "How Hollywood Has Destroyed America," reveals a paltry three films portraying the destruction of Philadelphia. That's one fewer than Perfection, Nevada, a fictional town with a population of 14. Read more
"Efficiency and progress is ours once more / Now that we have the Neutron bomb ..." Read more
I do not believe, as it appears, that CT's comment thread is the work of some of the most awful, self-righteous, fearful, priggish blowhards to ever walk the Earth. I believe, rather, that it is the work of people who have been trained to believe that unless they present themselves as the most awful, self-righteous, fearful and priggish blowhards to ever walk the Earth then they will be condemned and cast out of their community. Read more
The playwright's husband was a Brit, and evangelical Christians in the UK don't carry the same 19th-century cultural baggage as evangelical Christians in America do. But still, he knew that many American evangelicals regarded beer-drinking as sinful and theologically fraught. He understood that it wouldn't be prudent for him, as a representative of sorts of a large evangelical organization, to be seen in public drinking a beer. That would be a source of "controversy." ... Read more
Eric Metaxas: Still utterly wrong about Bonhoeffer, about himself, and about any comparison between the two. How not to do evangelism. Wage-theft so common there's a standardized complaint form. A depressingly useful bit of British slang. Read more
I've banned one recent visitor from commenting here due to his trollery, sock-puppetry and poo-flinging vandalism. While his intentions towards everyone else here were entirely negative, I still hope that his brief interaction with this site might have touched his life in some positive way. So here is my gift to him and to all the other trolls I've had to ban over the years. It's a delicious recipe I hope they'll try and I know they'll enjoy: Escolar with Garlic Butter. Read more
"For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life." Read more
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