Twitter Exchange with Evangelicals for Marriage Equality Spokesman
Yesterday I got a surprise response on Twitter to my article, "Five Reasons Not to Sign the Evangelicals for Marriage Equality Petition," from the spokesperson for the group, Moody Bible Institute graduate Brandan Robertson. It's funny: during the interchange below I felt a bit like a beleaguered minority—but I shouldn't have. I stand with the historic Christian tradition, with the great majority of Bible interpreters throughout time—and with the Bible itself. I've done the homework. Here I...
Ivy League Mottoes
Ivy League Mottoes: Brown University In Deo Speramus (In God We Hope) Columbia University In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen (In Thy light shall we see light) Cornell University I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study. Dartmouth College Vox clamantis in deserto (The voice of one crying in the wilderness) Harvard University Veritas (Truth) Princeton University Dei sub numine viget (Under God's power she flourishes) University of Pennsylvania Leges sine moribus...
A Giant Leap for Mankind
Twenty-four men made it to the moon between 1969 and 1972. Only twenty-four men in history have seen the earth from the surface of another world. Here are the reflections of three of them on the significance of their experience (from 1:30:00ish in this fascinating documentary): Astronaut Gene Cernan: I felt that I was literally standing on a plateau somewhere out there in space, a plateau that science and technology had allowed me to get to. But now what I was seeing, and even more important,...
Five Reasons not to Sign the Evangelicals for Marriage Equality Petition
It didn't take a prophet to predict this. So I'm not handing in my cessationist credentials when I point out that I did in fact say this was coming: an organized group of evangelical Christians has come out with a legal argument for same-sex "marriage," one which purposefully and explicitly leaves the morality question aside. "Evangelicals for Marriage Equality" stretches at least two of its titular words beyond the breaking point, "Evangelicals" (see the EME advisory board) and "Marriage."...
Review: Great Expectations
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read this book because blogger Justin Taylor said professor Leland Ryken said I should. I was not disappointed. A few of the many coincidences stretched my ability to be immersed in the world Dickens created, but they did not break that ability. It was the characters who, though sometimes painted in extreme colors, kept me immersed. Dickens' send-up of high-society toadies was hilarious. I was also deeply affected by Joe's grace...