Saints and patriarchs

Last updated on: October 4, 2012 at 12:54 pm By Fred Clark

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

Ninevites are not ‘God’s children’

Last updated on: October 4, 2012 at 7:54 pm By Fred Clark

"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

‘Identity that sends us toward the other with love’

Last updated on: October 4, 2012 at 1:52 pm By Fred Clark

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

Chick-fil-A’s Biblical Family of the Day

Last updated on: October 20, 2012 at 4:42 pm By Fred Clark

"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

Learning to be annoyed by all the right people

Last updated on: October 3, 2012 at 11:54 pm By Fred Clark

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

‘What is an evangelical?’ part 3,947 …

Last updated on: October 3, 2012 at 5:14 pm By Fred Clark

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

Back to the grind

Last updated on: October 3, 2012 at 12:48 pm By Fred Clark

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

Culture warrior baffled by symbol with two short parallel lines

Last updated on: June 30, 2015 at 6:18 pm By Fred Clark

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

Same American story, this time in Wisconsin

Last updated on: October 2, 2012 at 4:05 pm By Fred Clark

"News coverage of the park's final exodus was predictably depressing: Hickory Lane residents without the means to rent apartments were faced with living in their cars, at a campground or in a homeless shelter." Read more

A documented case of false prophecy: Four years later, ‘Letter from 2012’ makes Focus on the Family look ridiculous

Last updated on: October 1, 2012 at 3:43 pm By Fred Clark

Before the 2008 election, Focus on the Family warned real, true Christians against voting for Barack Obama. The religious right group published a colorful "Letter From 2012 in Obama's America." It contained 34 specific predictions for what would become of America by October of 2012 (i.e., now). Libby Anne digs out a copy of that letter and examines each prediction. The result is hilarious and devastating. Read more

What was the name of the sea Jesus calmed during a storm?