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in demanding from them precisely what they most want to retain for themselves.” — Tom
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Saturday, December 20, 2014
Friday, December 19, 2014
Too Hot to Handle: A Lack of Leadership
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Joy and Strength
The joy of the Lord is not just a fireworks display |
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Rethinking the Platform
Okay, this one may be a little elaborate ... |
In this space we are trying to talk to a broad spectrum of evangelical Christians about the faith we have in common and to examine how that faith intersects with popular culture, the 21st century mindset and the modern church, among other things.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
“In case I don’t make it back …”
Monday, December 15, 2014
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Christmas Dreams, White or Otherwise
Friday, December 12, 2014
Too Hot to Handle: The Social Gospel and Social Justice
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Making Straight Paths
We are coming up on a year of posting daily, so I thought it might be time to revisit our very first post ever, courtesy of the enigmatic and seldom-seen Bernie, who really started the ball rolling. — Tom
We are likely all familiar with the preparations involved for a visiting dignitary: the airport at which he will arrive is closed off to other traffic, the roads his motorcade must travel are cleared, a security perimeter is established and so forth. This has been society’s behavior for time immemorial — when someone important arrives, everything else is managed to ensure that the VIP can keep to their schedule in a way that is most comfortable and safe for them.
Tuesday, December 09, 2014
Do We Need Revival?
Monday, December 08, 2014
Rabbit Language
“Hmm. How to proceed ...” |
Christians definitely disagree on this issue. I was in the U.S. last summer and heard them doing it. Naturally they were all doing it politely.
Sunday, December 07, 2014
“It’s All Under Control …”
“Nothing happening here. You can move along any time now ...” |
If someone doesn’t come right out and say it (or something quite like it), a distraction is served up in the timeliest possible fashion. Remember Bill Clinton’s famous four-day bombing of Iraq just as the House of Representatives commenced his own impeachment hearing?
Or the problem may magically just go away, as in the disappearance from the news for the last month or so of anything whatsoever to do with the Ebola virus, when well over 1,000 Americans are now potentially infected.
Saturday, December 06, 2014
Bad Ideas that Refuse to Die
Friday, December 05, 2014
Too Hot to Handle: Evangelical Idiots and the Death of America
Thursday, December 04, 2014
Inbox: Richard Carrier’s Moral Philosophy
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014
Redistributionism and Jubilee
Tuesday, December 02, 2014
Get a Cat, Richard
Monday, December 01, 2014
The Hand of the Lord
Raphael: St Paul Before the Proconsul, 1515 |