Acts 19:29-41: "But when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said ... 'The courts are open, and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges there against one another. If there is anything further you want to know, it must be settled in the regular assembly. For we are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause that we can give to justify this commotion.'" Read more
The stranger has never read this book, but he knows a lot about David Foster Wallace. "He's a hack," the stranger says. "The soundtrack to St. Elmo's Fire blew." Read more
This whole world-without-children thing handicaps Nicolae Carpathia's ability to supply the sort of horrific evil we expect from an Antichrist. He's supposed to be the epitome of evil -- surpassing the cruelty of all the monsters of history. But it's hard to compete with guys like Genghis Khan or Joshua when there are no children available to put to the sword. So instead of murder and mayhem, Nicolae's evil master plan mostly just involves taxation. Read more
Bernard Bailyn's insight into the "savagery" of early Puritan colonists relates closely to our discussion earlier this week on Saturday Night Live's "DJesus Uncrossed" sketch and its failure to exceed the absurdity of Tim LaHaye's actual views about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Read more
It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine and you show me yours. This week we wrap up our alphabetical survey of songs named after famous people, including songs named for three musical geniuses, two Hollywood icons, a propagandist, an architect and a tragic survivor. Read more
That stuff about lamb’s horns and dragons is kind of trippy, but it’s far, far saner than what John MacArthur is saying. Read more
We have surrendered the necessary task of advocating on behalf of families to "pro-family" clerics and lobbyists who are more anti-modern than actually pro-family, meaning families do not now have any effective advocates for their interests. Even worse, these "pro-family" clerics and lobbyists have been pushing an anti-feminist, anti-woman agenda that winds up doing real harm to real families. Read more
Gotta use up all the links in the fridge before this stuff goes bad: Babe Ruth and Reinhold Niebuhr; the Whedonization Plot; "where are all the customers?;" what church renewal looks like, in verse; my one question for Billy Graham; the quintuple negative is not unlovely, in a way; and why Maricopa isn't a county, but a punchline. Read more
North Carolina plan says show a breast, lose the right to vote; the bad old days were not that long ago; congratulations to Gomer Pyle; two famous Freds and why it's easier to compare myself to the evil one; patriarchal Christian movie wants evangelicals to oppose birth control. Read more
Nor did they deny that I would encounter similar disparities when consulting the "map" of scripture. In that case, however, they taught that I must always side with the map. That is what it means to be a fundamentalist. Read more
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