Theology That Bites Back
This book is a sweeping treatment of church history by Tom Holland, who might best be called a sympathetic unbeliever. What would a church history look like if written by an atheist who was willing to give the influence of Christianity a fair shake? This book provides an answer to that question. The subtitle is …
“I decided, back in high school, that I wanted nothing more than to be intellectually honest. I made that decision after two semesters with Mr. Satler in sociology—he affected me like looking at the winos downtown could make someone want to be really careful with alcohol.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 120
Introduction: This is not so much a prediction as it is an occasion for me to share my heart. Sharing your heart with others is still okay, right? Especially if it is a heartfelt sharing of the heart. When we contemplate the coming presidential election, the phrase that comes to my mind is “brace for …
“I heard a gunshot from a passing car. At the same moment, I heard an angry whizzz go by our heads, like a half-pound bumblebee that figured out how to go a thousand miles per hour. The bricks to the right of us, on the store front, shattered.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 120
Letter to the Editor: Greetings Pastor Wilson, I first want to applaud your song "Hold Your Peace" and thank you for sharing it. You and your team did an excellent job and it always lifts ...
“They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.” Matthew 22:21 (KJV) ...
A week or so ago, I told you about the song that our friend Aaron Rench has put together. Well, the video is now out, and see below. And, of course, if you want to get the song for yourself . . .
“Besides, becoming the American president would involve catering to all the rubes and cornpones in the fly-over section of the country, and Felix didn’t think he was up to that. His skin twitched just thinking about it.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 110
“But he was also an ugly man. But this ugliness—of the plain kind, not the grotesque freak show kind—was combined with uncanny amounts of personal charisma. He could talk virtually anyone into virtually anything, and this was a function of that charisma sloshing out of him whenever he made any sudden movements whatever.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 108
