Buck and his father here are merely stand-ins. Buck represents the generic "saved" reader of the Left Behind series and his father represents that generic reader's generic "unsaved" family members. This conversation is mainly just another of the many evangelistic marketing scripts sprinkled throughout these books. 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: Jepthah. Read more
It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine and you show me yours. This week: Songs of saints and biblical figures. Read more
"And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 people who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?" Read more
Brian McLaren: "Our biggest problem, though, isn't our differences. Our biggest problem is that we build identity -- whatever our religion -- we build identity by enforcing hostility toward the other. In other words, I learn who I am by learning who I'm against. I learn who I am by learning who's against me." 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: Lot. Read more
Kittredge Cherry on the legacy of FannyAnn Eddy ... AndiLit on the problem with "Christian" art ... Alan Bean on the walls that divide us ... Shane Claibourne on prophetic clowns ... Roger Olson and Peter Enns on why evangelicals "have to walk on tiptoes" ... Read more
The word "evangelical" no longer belongs to the old mainstream of Christianity Today and Billy Graham and Wheaton College. Today that word belongs to people like Pat Robertson, Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Bryan Fischer, David Barton and Cindy Jacobs. If the old mainstream evangelicals want to reclaim that word, they're going to have to take it back by taking it away from Robertson & Co. Read more
I thought I'd dodged the bullet last month when both daughters ended up missing several days of school with the nasty cough/fever/head-cold thing that's been going around. Not quite. Woke up Monday with a tickle in my throat and the realization that the next 48-72 hours would be unpleasant. And they were. Read more
Being a culture-warrior means pretending you've never heard of equality: "When I moved to Washington I noticed these small blue stickers with two yellow lines permeating the city. They were on cars, t-shirts, and lamp posts. It wasn’t long before I Googled 'blue sticker yellow lines' and discovered it is the logo of the Human Rights Campaign." Read more
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