“Describing the Sabbath is like describing ice cream to somebody who has never eaten it. You can describe it all you want, but the proof is in the big spoonful of Cherry Garcia.” Gayle Trotter: Today I am speaking with Dr. Matthew Sleeth, author of the book 24/6: a . . . . Continue Reading »
“There she is, speaking through broken English, she’s poorly educated, she’s no match for Hitchens in debate, and yet her whole life trumped every single argument he could make all the clever arguments that he could make against God and God’s existence.”Gayle . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, Pat Robertson told his viewers that he believes Alzheimer’s disease to be a “kind of death,” a basis for the un-afflicted spouse to seek divorce and move on with their lifeso long as they act mercifully and provide a means for care of that spouse. This view . . . . Continue Reading »
“We’re all contradictory. We all have the potential for great good and the potential for great sin that’s the human condition.”Gayle recently spoke with Father John Bartunek, a priest in the order of the Legion of Christ, a religious congregation. Father . . . . Continue Reading »
“It is possible to hold onto a desire of our heart without succumbing to bitterness or a fretful anxiety about the future, but to be content here and now.”Gayle spoke with Jennifer Marshall about the challenges of being single in the twenty-first century. Jennifer is the director . . . . Continue Reading »
“I had hunted down this specialist like a crazed groupie and had really badgered his office for just about a year to convince him to come out and consult with Max and consult for us. I thought he was really going to give me that key that one piece of advice and help that was going . . . . Continue Reading »
A couple of days ago I did a post called “Why Love the Church” wherein I analogized from some words of G. K. Chesterton to the effect that we ought to love the church simply because she is the church, the bride of Christ and mother of the faithful. In that quote Chesterton . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times’ profile of evangelical women’s speaker Priscilla Shirer by writer Molly Worthen (Housewives of God) raises some interesting points about the complementarian view of leadership in church and family, intimating that a functional egalitarianism may more accurately . . . . Continue Reading »
Once upon a time I was a siren.Being a siren is not difficult; when a mommy and daddy siren loves each other very much . . . baby sirens come along. Humans find us ugly, because we are ugly. There is no way around what constant inbreeding has done to us, but Homer and the lying poets did not have to . . . . Continue Reading »