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 …

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. …

Control Your Own Body, Aye

One of the most interesting aspects of the health care debate is watching people who have spent a good portion of their adult lives saying “A,” who then under the pressure of their own position’s internal illogic come out saying “not A.” We are now at that place. Mark Steyn has pointed out, quite aptly, …

NSA Convocation 2009

As it happens, this convocation is occurring in the year of our Lord 2009. This year marks the significant birth anniversaries for various notables—it is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth, the 200th of Lincoln, the 300th of Samuel Johnson, and of course, the one that really matters, the 500th of John Calvin, the great …

Dwarves Are For the Dwarves

Over the last few weeks Obama has added to his growing list of gaffes by insulting surgeons, saying that they would rather cut off a foot than pretty much anything else, because there is apparently some real money to be made in cutting off feet. The doctors responded all huffy-like, and so the saga continues. …