The 1952 Rapture movie "The Missing Christians" is bad. You probably guessed that, but you didn't guess how very bad it actually is. It's worse than you're thinking. It's worse than you're thinking even if you've already accounted for the fact that it's worse than you're thinking. Read more
So why is it that the story of Peter’s vision in Acts 10 & 11 seems so bewildering to so many people? The story isn’t exactly subtle. Peter himself explicitly states What This Vision Means several times in the story itself. So how is it that so many people read this story and come away confused as to What This Vision Means? Why are so many people convinced this story is about food and dietary laws when the story itself... Read more
"God has shown me that I should not call anyone profane or unclean." If you miss that, you've missed the entire book of Acts. If you miss that, you miss the entire gospel. Erick Erickson missed that. Read more
This is a brazen, broken request for financial donations. If you can afford to do so, and if you are inclined to do so, now would be a very helpful time to make a donation to this humble blog. Read more
"Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love." Read more
Reality still matters, so the proper response to a debate between science and anti-science is not to say that some think the Earth is 4.5 billion years old and some think it is 6,000 years old, so let's all be reasonable and say it's 2,250,003,000 years old. Read more
Last Tuesday night, young-Earth creationist Ken Ham hosted a "debate" of sorts with popular science advocate Bill Nye, the Science Guy. Then my power went out. Here, belatedly, is a round-up of some of the terrific commentary, reactions and responses to that event. Read more
Langston Hughes and the altar call; infernal Legos; the revolution will not be televised; a half-century celebration of William F. Buckley being massively wrong about things; and a plea to blend poverty for good. Read more
This short speech by Dublin's pre-eminent drag queen isn't about America or the church or the church in America. And yet it is. And so I think it's something that every pastor in every church in America ought to see. I think maybe it's actually something that every pastor in every church in America needs to see. Read more
The idea of LIHEAP -- helping people when they need help -- goes against the increasingly popular crabs-in-a-bucket ethos of Randian resentment. If I have to pay 100 percent of my heating bill, why should they get any help paying theirs? So what if that means poor families shiver through the winter? Read more
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