[This post was prompted by the series focused on "One In Christ: A Week of Mutuality" by Rachael Held Evans.*] There was a time, before the internet, before video games, before cell phones, when people went to amusement parks to do more than ride coasters. There were actually quite a few other attractions there, such… Continue reading»
This is my commentary on an article by the same name at American Thinker, a conservative political site. While I believe that religion must not be excluded as part of our culture and history as a nation, I also believe that unless God is directly running the government it should keep its nose out of… Continue reading»
Once again I feel the need to speak out against a harmful and naive teaching popular in many churches today. I know I’ve written such things before and likely no one will see this, but at least writing it down helps me to articulate why this teaching is wrong. And as in many times past,… Continue reading»
Have you ever noticed that evil never creates or initiates, but only reacts? Recently there was a report of atheists un-blessing a highway with “unholy water”; the Christians do something and the anti-Christians try to undo it. The name “atheism” itself is a reaction, an anti-stance, a mirror image. Criminals destroy what others build up;… Continue reading»
It used to be that employee management was called the personnel department, but then it was changed to human resources. Most people don’t think about the name change, but in my opinion it was deliberate (by some at least; others would dispute this): to devalue human beings into mere resources, cogs in wheels, things to… Continue reading»
My dad was a music major in college, and he told of a prank the students used to play on a certain music professor. They would wait till the prof was on the top floor of the building, then go to the basement to play the scale on a piano– but omit the final note.… Continue reading»
When I gave birth the first time, I had no epidural. I felt everything. And my labor was 31 hours. (I was 37, fer literally cryin’ out loud!) But the nurse told me to do the most unintuitive thing: “push through the pain”; that is, the time to push is when it hurts the most.… Continue reading»
“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it” is the very familiar text of Prov. 22:6. Many sermons have been preached, and some (awful) books written, on what exactly that means for parenting. But all seem to treat it as some kind… Continue reading»
This past year (I think) there was a viral video of a big Australian kid being picked on by a scrawny one. The latter had been tormenting the former all year, and finally the victim snapped, slamming his tormenter to the ground. Most comments were supportive of the big kid, because it finally put an… Continue reading»
There’s a good and concise treatment of the issue of apostle regarding Junia here, including a list of all the other links in the series. I’ve written before that the essential meaning of apostle seems, from the examples we see in scripture, to be primarily that of what we now call a missionary, but more… Continue reading»