Dealing with church members perpetually enraged due to Fox Geezer Syndrome is a pastoral challenge. Pastors are looking for some way of reaching these folks. They are suffering from a spiritual sickness, and pastors want to bring them some relief. Dismissing such concerns as nothing more than an imaginary "media narrative" doesn't help real pastors dealing with such real problems. Read more
"Pastor Provides Pastoral Care" is not news. Nor is "Shock-jock Says Something Shocking" newsworthy. But if the "Morning Zoo Crew" dispenses with its usual crude antics in the wake of a tragedy, rallying community support for the victims, that would be news -- a reversal of the usual roles, something surprising and unexpected. By the same token, when religious leaders respond to tragedy by making the sort of shocking statements one usually expects to hear from Zoo-Crew shock-jocks, that's news too. Read more
Mainstream evangelical leaders, magazines, bloggers and spokespeople were mostly reluctant to criticize the appalling post-Newtown statements by their social conservative peers Mike Huckabee, James Dobson, Bryan Fischer and Frankling Graham, That's understandable. Their constituency, after all, is the same white evangelical populace that watches Huckabee on Fox News, listens to Dobson and Fischer on the radio, and that inexplicably regards Franklin Graham as the legitimate heir to his father's legacy. Read more
"I find that strangely inspiring and hopeful. We speak words or write them on paper or on the screen and we can never be sure who will hear them or read them or photocopy or forward them." 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: Athaliah. Read more
I want to hear from any of you who played Dungeons & Dragons or any other pencil-and-paper fantasy role-playing games back in the day. Specifically, I'm looking for stories of condemnation, consternation, opprobrium and sheer, unvarnished panic that you may have encountered during the height of the backlash against such games. Read more
This is potentially exciting news, since Murray playing Buck Williams rules out that part for Nic Cage -- making it likelier that my Cage-as-Nicolae-Carpathia wish will come true. Read more
“You come to me as God’s ministers, and you are positive that you know exactly what God’s will is. You tell me that slavery is a sin; but other’s of God’s ministers say the opposite – which am I to believe? You assume that you only have the knowledge of God’s will.” 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: Job and his first set of kids. Read more
Thank you to everyone who visited, read and commented here in 2012. Here are the posts from the past year here that got the most attention, from Chick-fil-A to Happy Meals. Read more
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