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
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
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
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