Theology That Bites Back
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
Credit: Hannah Grieser Our Moscow City Council recently extended their masking order until October, thus demonstrating that they do not at all understand who they have become in the story. And then, to compound their lack of self-awareness woes, they then took out an ad in the paper encouraging citizens to snitch on Anybody They …
“The other members of his team could take a great deal of this. They were eating it out of the carton with a spoon.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 35
“The other attorneys looked at him expectantly, like two rows of sea lions on either side of the table waiting for the trainer to throw a fish over the Plexiglass.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 34
