"We were convinced that peace could not be achieved through violence. Violence begets violence, and we believed the only way to achieve peaceful ends was through peaceful means. We took a stand against an unjust system, and we decided to use this faith as our shield and the power of compassion as our defense." Read more
Jeremiah 22:16: "He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? says the Lord." Read more
Some recent links: Who killed the Violence Against Women Act? ... What "modesty" culture really teaches ... Steubenville and sons ... good, saintly Christians torment a grieving mother ... a game of "political telephone" with women's health care ... and more. Read more
The good news is that there seems to be complete agreement on the nature of the problem Peter Enns identifies. And the bad news is there still seems to be disagreement that it's actually a problem. Read more
The portrayal of villains is another place where storytelling and theology inevitably intersect. What is evil? What is sin? What is wickedness? Is it the opposite of good, or the absence of good? Does it lie more in its ends or in its means? Your ideas about all of those questions will shape how you portray your uber-villains. Read more
The Billboard charts, as filtered through Dan Le Sac and Christianity Today, can tell us which recording artists are destined for an eternity of conscious torment. (Sorry, Marcus Mumford, One Direction and Pink, but it looks like you'll be joining the Singing Nun ... in Hell!) Read more
"We support biblical families," Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy says of his fast-food corporation. So let's take a look at some of those biblical families. Today's entry: Absalom and Amnon. Read more
For some people, Christianity is a life-shaping faith and a source of hope and meaning. For others, it's a tribal competition in which life is all about scoring points for Team Christian. Good news for people in the latter category, Christianity Today reports that Team Christian now has the No. 1 album in the U.S. Read more
And the Word was made text, and the text was bound among us, and we beheld its glory, the glory as of the only transcribed of the Father, full of inerrancy and truth. And of its fulness have all we received, and inerrancy for inerrancy. ... Read more
Some Thursday morning links, including: a grammatical datum; X-ray specs and sea monkeys; I brake for turtles; networking with the least powerful person in the room; heaven and hell; what it means to be privileged; and good advice from Doctor Kildare. Read more
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