Here are a couple of clips from Imus yesterday. Imus has a good format. Last night, I was also on Busted Halo with Father Dave, on the Catholic Channel, over at Sirius/XM. It was a feast of reason and flow of soul. Tonight the film premiere is at the Village East Cinema (189 2nd Avenue, …
Widows, Deaconesses, and Nuns
Book 4/Chapter 13 The case of enrolled widows (section 18) 1. What argument do the Romanists make from 1 Tim. 5:12? 2. What does Calvin grant? 3. What does he deny? 4. What three points does Calvin make about this? Nuns are different (section 19) 1. What does Calvin call these enrolled widows? 2. What …
Swimming to Hawaii
The current health care debate fiasco illustrates why nothing whatever can be done about America’s death spiral apart from a profound reformation of doctrine, life and morals. And that will not happen unless a whole lot of preachers are moved by the Holy Spirit to start preaching differently than they currently do. I have said …
Away With Monkish Vows
Book 4/Chapter 13 Monastic sectarianism (section 14) 1. What does Calvin call blasphemy? 2. How were the ancient monks different from Calvin’s contemporaries? 3. What does Calvin call this? Indictment of the monks (section 15) 1. What is rare among monasteries? 2. Even in Augustine’s day, what does he lament? 3. Does Calvin think there …
The Joy Behar Segment
Here is the Joy Behar clip, for those who haven’t seen it.
Rolling Credenda Content
Ta da! Last week I let you know about the new Credenda look, and here is the roll out as promised. You will still have pardon some construction, but there is enough there for you to wander around the place and check the faucets. The key thing to remember in this is that there will …
Lisa Miller
Over at Slate, Christopher Hitchens had some fun with Lisa Miller’s yawning over Collision.
A Deficient Sense of Humor
Have you ever been taking a nice, hot shower when a friend with a deficient sense of humor heaved a bucket of cold water over the top of the curtain? Christianity Today asked a number of Christian leaders to provide the hot shower, and then (apparently) asked me and another guy to provide the cold …
The Prophet Obama
As you can see in the previous post, I appeared this morning on Fox News and, completely independent of my brief interaction with Christopher Hitchens there, was pleased to have done my small part for our First Amendment freedoms, appearing on a network that the president is actually trying to shut out of the political …
Fox and Friends
Here is the Fox clip from this morning. You have to click on the Collision picture of Christopher — our segment is not the one titled “Fight Like a Girl.”