Theology That Bites Back
“He didn’t feel the way he had felt the night before, except in his gut. He felt normal in every respect, with the exception of his large intestine. He felt like his intestine had somehow gained thirty pounds. He thought he should be able to function normally without looking dejected. He was dejected though, or at least his intestine was.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 87
Introduction: As a number of you have no doubt seen, we were taken to task yesterday by Joseph Bayly and Brian Bailey, and given the nature of the criticism, I thought a response was necessary. I hope to keep the response centered on what I believe to be the central issue, and so perhaps this …
“So my grandma smiled her brightest and most cheerful smile at the lady, and with her old-school Alabama accent, the kind you could spread on crackers, she said . . .”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 73
Letter to the Editor: Concerning "And now for some words of encouragement" What should one do if one's own church requires masking in order to attend (everyone, 3 years and up)? I've just ...
“They want to rule the world, pure and simple, even if it is a smoking ruin by the time they get to rule it.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 71
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 …
