Quite a few American Christians who have no problem at all accepting, enjoying and celebrating Tim LaHaye's gory Jesus in the Left Behind series nonetheless pretend to be horrified by Saturday Night Live's spoof "DJesus Uncrossed." Read more
Quite a few American Christians who have no problem at all accepting, enjoying and celebrating Tim LaHaye's gory Jesus in the Left Behind series nonetheless pretend to be horrified by Saturday Night Live's spoof "DJesus Uncrossed." Read more
Kinnamon and Lyons took eight swings at the question of what constitutes a "biblical worldview" and whiffed on love every time. I am agape at this lack of agape. This idea of a "biblical worldview" that hath not love is a sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. It is nothing. It gains nothing. Whoever does not love does not know God. Read more
Bible-quoting teddy bears; the disastrous blessings of "prophecy;" eHarmony gets eDeathThreats from eChristians; the old "non-sexual self-bondage" excuse; a theory about Ken Ham; taking the Queen's shilling; and "the most horrifically disturbing children's book we have ever seen." Read more
"It doesn't matter if everyone else was doing it," teachers say. Which is foolishness. Teachers love to pull that one on the one kid they've singled out as "an example." So the whole class is talking or disrupting or whatever and they focus on one child to bear the brunt of the punishment. The kid protests that everyone else was doing the same thing and the teacher says that doesn't matter. Of course it matters. Read more
The National Catholic Reporter urges the church to correct the injustice of denying women's calling; Richard Beck and Chaplain Mike discuss the meaning of Ash Wednesday; Jen Dziura on "When Men Are Too Emotional to Have a Rational Argument;" and Sean Palmer introduces us to Becky, target audience for all Christian radio. Read more
We tell those kids to read the Bible and a few of them actually do. And then they have questions. They notice the differences among the Gospel accounts and they ask about those. Some of the brighter and more ambitious Bible readers will even ask about some of the more esoteric bits gleaned from the not-always-compatible stories in the histories of the Hebrew scriptures. And any kid who reads 1 Chronicles on her own deserves a serious, honest response. Read more
The zombie lie that budgets could be balanced if only we stopped giving away such generous foreign humanitarian aid is actually two lies combined. Read more
"How has the whole Church found itself believing something about slavery which is so at odds with the Bible?" prominent British evangelical Steve Chalke asks. It's an interesting question. Christians today unanimously condemn slavery as a grave moral evil. The Bible condones it. Christians who insist we must never be "at odds with the Bible" are, in fact, at odds with the Bible -- at least according to their own understanding of what that means. Read more
The Republican Party, Sam Tanenhaus writes, "is and will continue to be the party of white people." But Republicans aren't sitting back and accepting this fate. They're boldly continuing their winsome outreach efforts to attract a more diverse array of voters -- women, blacks, Latinos, LGBT citizens, college students, disaster victims and more. Read more
Sam Baker starts us off with a prayer, plus some Monday morning links, including: the Torah and Marvel Comics; snakes, Bibles and guns; anti-immigration policies; arresting children; James Baldwin; a traffic jam in Italy; Jesus and Zoloft; and telling people exactly where you'd like them to put that Gospel tract. Read more
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