No actual human being, anywhere, in any time, has ever experienced what Josh McDowell there asserts is the average experience of the average person. Caligula would look at McDowell's statement and shake his head in perplexed horror. Read more
No actual human being, anywhere, in any time, has ever experienced what Josh McDowell there asserts is the average experience of the average person. Caligula would look at McDowell's statement and shake his head in perplexed horror. Read more
I hab a toad. Ted Cruz a "rock star" with the religious right. Southern Baptist spokesman resists his Kanye moment. Conservatives only oppose subsidies for oil companies when they're passed through heating aid for poor families. Syria is still a humanitarian crisis (and that doesn't mean it needs more bombs). A cover-up on the rules about covering up. Gary Bauer confused, thinks "promiscuous" means "taller than Gary Bauer." Read more
The great creeds of the church make no mention of homosexuality -- let alone singling it out for particular and pre-eminent condemnation or suggesting that such condemnation plays a central role in the faith. Yet now the majority of Christians and non-Christians alike view this as the primary defining characteristic of Christian faith, practice and spirituality. How in Hell did that happen? Read more
"I speak of another danger we confront, not as dread or as foreboding, but equally offensive and evil to all reasonable, rational, free American citizens. It is the danger of hate and venom, of slander and abuse, generated by fear and heaped indiscriminately upon many great Americans by another relative handful of zealots, in the ranks or clutches of self-styled 'I am a better American than you are' organizations." Read more
"Just imagine being an 18-year-old woman reading that, an 18-year-old high school senior reading that. ... When he talked about what it means to be a man. Imagine being a kid being bullied in high school by people who are beating him up saying the same thing." Read more
Dallas, 1963, is becoming the new normal. Vatican reminds us of importance of editors. NALT Christians Project gets a boost from Bishop Robinson, Jay Bakker, Ray Boltz and Oral Roberts' grandson. Patheos welcomes Warren Throckmorton and Marcus Borg. Hey, remember when prominent evangelical spokesperson (The Liar) Tony Perkins was just a humble Louisiana politician courting the white supremacist vote? Read more
Whenever you hear a politician or pundit talking about "the family," substitute "American families" and see whether the statement makes any sense in the real world. Quite often it doesn't. Read more
"The undiscover'd country from whose bourn / No traveller returns, puzzles the will" Read more
Colleges may still fret about "graduation rates" for Division I athletes, but once they accepted the argument that college education is primarily an investment in future income, they lost any basis for opposing an athlete's decision to turn pro before graduating. Allen Iverson left Georgetown after only one year and thus secured for himself everything that the school had promised to provide -- a higher future income. If that is primarily what college is for, then why shouldn't someone like him leap to take the cash in the NBA draft? Read more
An English major in traffic. Religious right lie predicted here on Sept. 30 is told by religious right liar on Oct. 12. Three misconceived doctrines. What do progressive Christian congregations fight about? Hobby Lobby is very sorry that "you people" are so sensitive. "Private" charities distribute government food. Read more
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