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. …
That’s a Lot of Bread
As I continue to labor manfully away with my machete in the jungles of foodism, a former student has written me a thoughtful set of questions that I thought would be good to address here. First, he agrees that idols need to be rejected, period. “So I agree with the necessity in honoring God as …
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 …
Collision Release
As promised, here is the basic info on the release of Collision. There will be a limited theatrical release in New York City and Los Angeles in late October, 2009. There will be a big publicity push around this, but we would still like you to tell all your atheist friends. They all live in …
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. …
Our Man Sven
Since none of us apparently have enough to do, let us try to analyze this “birther” controversy with an objective and dispassionate eye. At issue, for those who were born yesterday, is whether or not President Obama was born in Hawaii or not, upon which issue his eligibility for health care benefits . . . …
It Took Her Five Minutes
Do not conclude from the fact that I am about to mention Sarah Palin that my blog traffic numbers are down and I am trying to juice them. Not at all. I am just being a dispassionate observer of the Republic here. The fact that some folks will not be able to discuss her without …
So Draw It Now
The president has clearly been knocked back on his heels over this whole health care fiasco. It is looking more and more like he will get a bill with “health care” written on it somewhere, so he can have a face-saving talking point, but he is decreasingly likely to get anything close to what he …
A Sinkhole of Father Hunger
Here is a little clip of Frank Schaeffer decoding secret messages that mainline Christian conservatives have been sending out to the fever swamps of the right. I am a little peeved, frankly, because I live in northern Idaho, for crying out loud. Why I am not getting these messages? Did I offend somebody? Oh, I …