I’m neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, and I work for a non-profit organization (sort of). Plus, I’ve already used that joke before, and it’s not even mine. But I still think what I’m about to predict will come true.Wait for it… Calvinism and Arminianism will...
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A Post for My Mother-in-Law
I just installed the brand-new Standard Theme 3 on my blog, and I want to take this opportunity to use its image-posting template to show off a cute girl who lives at my house. She is a true blessing from the Lord.
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So a man constructs a heavily fortified, state-of-the-art port on the coast of Somalia. He allows any ship in the world to come into the port carrying whatever they want to carry—as long as they promise, cross their hearrrrrts, that they’re not pirates. “We promise!...
This Just In! Britney Spears Offers Her Opinion on the Ideological Bent of the Roberts Court!
About thirteen years ago—toward the end of my undergraduate education—I suddenly realized that there was some TV news I could no longer stomach. I remember noticing it; I honestly had trouble then and now describing just why it happened. But Senator Jay Rockefeller...
David Pogue on the Religious War Among Technology Enthusiasts
David Pogue, entertaining and perceptive and level-headed tech reviewer at the NY Times, proves again why I read every one of his columns in this genuinely helpful post. When you buy a product, you are, in a way, locking yourself in. You’re committing to a brand....
Perceptive Comment on Worship
We need to ditch the false belief that cultural forms are neutral. Every enculturation of Christianity highlights some elements of the faith and obscures others. We must be vigilant and creatively compensate for what gets lost in translation when we use the language...
What the Bible Actually Says
If we are really Bible people, then we won’t let our rhetoric about the dangers of moralism (or antinomianism!) get out of kilter with what the Bible actually says. I tried to point that out in an article about to be published in mercilessly-cut-to-950-words-form on...
Why Bother to Learn Very Well English? OR, Where Are All the Quechua Majors?
Argument Learning a language after childhood is very difficult, so difficult that language learners require powerful motivation. Why then do people learn German? Chinese? French? What pushes them on? Cultural enrichment is one possible motivation. Intellectual...
New Category: KJV
Over ten years ago, one of my God-given spiritual leaders said in a class that King James Onlyism is actively seeking converts and that, unfortunately, seeking peace by refusing to address the issue was not an option. Conflict was coming, and we needed to go on the...
Another Example of Language Change in the Last 400 Years: Punctuation
Three minutes ago I discovered another passage I had been misreading for years because I always thought of it in 400-year-old KJV language: As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: So shall he...