Slowly, I’m working through the posts in our archive library like the Lone Ranger: Riding into town one day, fixing all its problems, and riding back out to the sunset afterward. I’ve got about 2200 posts to fix, and I’ll get to them all in time!
Lord Snow Presides over the unique way that knowing how to describe something can help us frame problems—and solve them.
It’s very easy for Christians to ignore Jesus’ direct orders, and even easier to latch onto conspiracy theories about the number 666.
Hell, in The Great Divorce, encourages humans to be humans—while Heaven only wants robots devoid of everything that makes humanity sparkle.
When Christians write parables or allegories, they never worry about their characters not acting like people at all. That’s not the point of the story. The story is meant only as a framework to use to defeat strawmen.
Today, our focus rests upon Gaius Plinius Secundus, more popularly known as Pliny the Elder. As he lived between 23/24 CE – 79 CE and was good friends with Emperor Vespasian (who ruled from 69-79 CE), he was very well-placed to know all about this stuff. Let’s see if he did.
Yesterday, we talked about a romance novel by Karen Witemeyer, At Love’s Command. In it, a genocidal war criminal finds peace, healing, and redemption thanks to Jesus Power and the love of a good woman. Many Christians loved this story, but a lot of other folks got very upset with Read more
Today, let me show you evangelicals’ guesses about why pastoral plagiarism happens, the reasons for it that evangelicals can’t discuss, and most importantly why they can’t discuss this truth.
Hi and welcome back! Today being the 4th of July, I thought I’d offer some past posts about freedom — and then some links our community has been talking about today. Happy 4th! FREEDOM! Observations about freedom from the R2D commentariat Our commentariat brought their A game today and found Read more
Early medieval philosophers and theologians continued to refine the concepts involved with Hell.
In these two letters, Moore tries very hard to portray himself as a man of deep principles and great morality: a hero in every sense of the word, fighting hard against the enemies of good in the halls of power in his denomination. Alas, his actual behavior doesn’t quite support that portrayal. Today, we’ll see how Russell Moore fits into his own self-presentation as a big damn hero.