“She was doing pretty well until about three minutes into his presentation. He gestured expansively, with the kind of gesture that he had found so effective in the impressing of freshman girls, and Maria almost lost it. His right hand moved languidly toward the ceiling, and Dr. Rollins was unable to keep himself from looking at it as it went. The board members, being all men, didn’t notice, but Maria did, and started biting her forefinger.”
In Which I Consider the Propriety of Tying a Bandanna Around My Head and Coming Off the Top Ropes
Introduction: I speak, of course, in metaphors. Yesterday the prime minister of India put a billion people, more or less, into lock down. He did this because there was a "spike" in cases -- ...
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134: Did America Have A Christian Founding?
Welcome to the Plodcast! This week Doug chats about the Covid-19 crisis, unpacks the word aschemoneo, and plugs Mark Hall’s Did America Have A Christian Founding? Get Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards with an introduction by Joe Rigney today: https://canonpress.com/products/religious-affections/
134: Did America Have A Christian Founding?
Welcome to the Plodcast! This week Doug chats about the Covid-19 crisis, unpacks the word aschemoneo, and plugs Mark Hall’s Did America Have A Christian Founding? Get Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards with an introduction by Joe Rigney today: https://canonpress.com/products/religious-affections/
More Like Tomoyto
“‘Some might have expected a flood of controversy like this to damage our . . . testimony.’ He remembered just in time that Dr. Tom hated the word brand, and so he veered at the last minute over to testimony. Tomayto, tomahto.”
Our Letter Carrier Takes the Curve
Letter to the Editor: I really appreciate your post - Three Reasons Why the White House Must Not Panic. My husband and I own a small business in Pennsylvania. As news of the coronavirus began ...
A Test, Not a Quiz
Luther “said that the ultimate test of a good preacher is whether he is prepared to face ridicule and to lose his life, his wealth and his good name because of his preaching.”
Luther as quoted in Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 108
Not Ready at All
“The carpet was a rich burgundy color, and the wainscot around the room was a nicely matched cherry. The room was solemn, elegant, dignified, and not ready for the meeting that was about to happen in it.”
Three Reasons Why the White House Must Refuse to Panic
Introduction: I can only imagine what kind of pressure the White House is currently getting, and when the imagination gets going, I think I can describe for you what kind of doomsday scenarios are being played out for them and run by them, with graphs, pie charts, oscillating models on computer screens, and all the …
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