[Note: In lieu of this week’s pop culture list, I’ve decided to run a special edition of Thirty Three Things that includes all Christian items. The regular 33T feature will still be posted this afternoon.] 1. You were loved into existence. °°°°°° 2. From 613 to 1 . . . . Continue Reading »
The fall months are when most churches are putting their budgets together for presentation to their congregants. I had a really amazing conversation with a pastor recently about how many people now not only don’t know the definition of tithing but have interesting ideas about what constitutes a . . . . Continue Reading »
Radical animal rights/enviromentalists are often more interested in propaganda than truth. Thus it isn’t surprising that an anti whaler, formerly with the very radical Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, claims he faked his own boat’s sinking. From the story:An animal-rights . . . . Continue Reading »
I wasn’t aware of the Michigan suit until today, but a federal judge has upheld legally questionable aspects of Obamacare: From the story:A federal judge in Detroit today upheld key provisions of President Barack Obama’s landmark health reform law. In a 20-page decision, U.S. District . . . . Continue Reading »
Robin of Berkeley reports on the deep hatred for God in Berkeley, California . Catholic journalists try to explain to Vatican officials the nature of communication today . Michele Obama claims that the president carries a picture of Mary Help of Christians in his wallet. The Catholic theologian . . . . Continue Reading »
Ron Johnson has a double-digit lead over liberal darling Russ Feingold in recent polling on Wisconsin’s senatorial race. But now Johnson’s opponents have found out a damaging fact about him: he is connected to the Catholic Church. Johnson is not even Catholic. He is Lutheran. But after . . . . Continue Reading »
If a politician stood before us and proclaimed, polemically, that his campaign would be entirely without polemics, would we believe him? Or, worse, if he said his campaign would try to avoid politics? Tyranny over language either works or backfires spectacularly in political movements, and each . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe reports that most teenagers aren’t sexually active in America today. In his Bancroft Prize-winning biography of Jonathan Edwards, George Marsden provides some historical contrast. Here is the skinny on pre-marital sex in eighteenth century Puritan New England: “Bundling,” which . . . . Continue Reading »
So this week, in political thought today, we’re reading Roger Scuton’s A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: ARGUMENTS FOR CONSERVATISM. Here are some excerpts from the last chapter on T.S. Eliot. They’re all relevant to Ralph’s spin on the Straussian theme of PROGRESS or RETURN. The real . . . . Continue Reading »
In a recent posting, Tony Campolo effuses about the inclusive ministry of Jesus . Jesus, he writes, “was always reaching out to the marginalized.” Therefore, he concludes, evangelicals need to affirm homosexuals and support the political effort to secure for gays and lesbians “all . . . . Continue Reading »
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