Theology That Bites Back
America is currently in the grip of a fever, and fevers break. The task of conservative believers is not to have a good testimony during this time of feverish panic. Our necessary task is to still ...
“As a result of his visionary thinking and visionary back-room dealing, he was soon the CEO of the largest oil company in the history of mankind. I think his oil company might be alluded to in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the big statue.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 67
“His name was John Henry, and there was a divine sense of humor thing in that because he was a steel-driving preacher.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 66
Introduction: One of the more famous taunts against the fighting prowess of the French is that they are “cheese-eating surrender monkeys.” The jokes are plentiful, and can be pretty funny, and, like much of such humor, historically ignorant. In the First World War, in that particular meat grinder of a war, the heroics of the …
“Whenever you see wholesale titillation and razzle dazzle, you can be assured the real game is somewhere else.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 64
Letter to the Editor: I sighed with relief and felt the burden lift as I read through your article, Littlejohn, MacArthur, and the Binding of Conscience. You touched on three things that ...
“She was a set of walking incongruities. Her dress was plain cotton, and she was wearing the same kind of white sneakers that she had worn for years. Apart from the two novelties, she clearly had the Old Order Mennonite look. But the baseball cap made her feel like her head was on fire, and while she had no intention of playing the hussy, the lipstick made her feel like she was almost one.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 42
Introduction: Shortly after John MacArthur announced the stand that Grace Community was taking with regard to Gov. Newsom’s shutdowneries, to wit, that they were going to worship the Lord anyhow, despite the mandate forbidding it, Brad Littlejohn wrote a lengthy response in which he argued that the principles appealed to by MacArthur were overdone, underdeveloped, …
“Stephanie nodded. Good to meet you, she seemed to indicate. She was cool and aloof, but still friendly. Like a sunbeam shining down on the upper slopes of a beautiful glacier.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 42
