The Obama saga continues. It does not look like he is going to be able to retrieve any kind of recognizable win out of the health care debacle, and thanks to God on that one. But because he is going to have to put some kind of happy face on whatever bill does get through …
Prayer Breakfast Judeo Christians
So let me tell you about a fun thing. A few weeks ago, Garry Trudeau ran a few strips in Doonesbury sending up “The Family,” of C Street fame — a group of Washington insiders running a ministry to politicians. As a faithful Doonesbury reader unacquainted with whatever scandal he was referring to, I thought …
Geez Louise
So, a friend informs me, Brian McLaren is observing Ramadan this year. I was minding my own business, see, and my friend sent me this link. Check it out your own self here. He sent me the link, I am convinced, to see if I would go off like a bottle rocket, all the while …
A More Timely Topic Than Some Would Like
Just a reminder to sign up for the Christ Church ministerial conference. The topic this year is sexual orthodoxy, and the dates are October 15-16, 2009. More info can be found here, or by clicking on the pic.
Wells They Did Not Dig
Rodney Stark’s book, The Victory of Reason, is a wonderful assembler of pieces. He pointed out a number of things I already knew, but had not considered the implications of before, and then added greatly to the number of such facts — and all with the same implications. For those who understand that economic liberty …
But Our Rationed Health Care Will Only Be This Way Until We Find the Magic Wand
HT: Hugh Hewitt
The Great Luge Run to Perdition
If you read through the linked article on homosexuals in ministry, you will find yet another example of what happens when professing Christians try to reconcile the plain teaching of Scripture with what their lusts are demanding of them. What to do? What to do? Why you “wrestle with the issues.” You grapple with them. …
Free Markets and Free Grace
In Rodney Stark’s very fine book, The Victory of Reason, he notes a problem with using the word “capitalism” in discussions of economics. He says capitalism “is very difficult to define, having originated not as an economic concept but as a pejorative term first used by nineteenth century leftists to condemn wealth and privilege. Adapting …
Ten Anglos Every Bit As Clueless
In the national liberal chatter over what could possibly have gotten into the American people over this health care business, the talk eventually turned, as you may have guessed, to race. The narrative is that Americans have not yet made their peace with the fact that Obama is black. This causes that kind of deep …
More Bread
I linked to a picture of the Palouse wheat fields yesterday. Here is a pic taken by a friend, with the wheat the color it is now (HT: Rob Sentz). That’s still a lot of bread.