(This is Part Ten of a series. Click here to go to Part One.) In the very first paragraph of his chapter dealing with religious pluralism in his book A New Kind of Christianity, Brian McLaren writes the following sentence: “We all woke up again today in a world where Christians, Muslims, and Jews (along with adherents [...]
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Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil only cheated “rascals.” Like George C. Scott’s character Mordecai in the “The Flim-Flam Man,” Weil maintained that “You can’t cheat an honest man.” One of his devilishly simple and effective cons was to bring a dog of questionable ancestry into a bar. He would then show the bartender a forged set [...]
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“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’“ Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you . . . When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different [...]
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Another National Day of Prayer has come and gone. Wisconsin U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb put a negative spin on the day by ruling that the practice is unconstitutional. She ruled that “the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience. . . . The government may not [...]
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Rep. André Carson, an elected official from Indiana’s 7th District, believes that people who are involved in calling this present civil government (both Democrats and Republicans) to account are similar to Islamic terrorists. Here’s an exchange between Washington Times reporter Kerry Pickett and Carson: KERRY PICKET: Do you think the people outside are generally dangerous [...]
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The eighth question that is “transforming the Christian faith,” according to author Brian McLaren, is the biblically and politically heated question of eschatology. For those not familiar with the term, eschatology refers to the study of “last things,” and specifically, in this case, to the interpretation of what the Bible has to say about these [...]
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I am greatly indebted to R.C. Sproul and Ligonier Ministries. R.C. has written many books that explain the Reformed doctrines in a simple, accessible way. He has acted as the “salesman”—in a very positive sense of the word—for Calvinism, and his salesmanship has been unsurpassed in the 20th century. In a time in history when [...]
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The University of Michigan awarded President B.O. an honorary “Doctor of Laws” degree last Saturday thereby recognizing his extensive experience in doctoring laws. But Obama urged further: we must doctor our language as well. As he spoke to UM’s graduating class, Obama denounced the rhetoric flying around these days: we must dispense with phrases like [...]
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Jennifer Knapp is a Christian music artist. Recently she announced that she’s a homosexual. She questioned the authenticity of Bible translations on the issue of homosexuality. She’s not the first to try her hand at this. Here’s a portion of her rationale: The Bible has literally saved my life. I find myself between a rock [...]
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I am quite in harmony with the main thrust of the TEA-Party movements. T-E-A, “Taxed Enough Already,” is a great rallying cry. “Taxed Too Much Already” would be better, but doesn’t square the convenient acronym. I fully support the TEA-parties’ stated aims to reduce taxes and limit government mainly because I, on principle, oppose socialism [...]
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