More Hobby Lobby fun

After yesterday’s post, I noticed this article – trying to tell Christians that they’ve done the wrong thing… or something. Here are the reasons one “Carol Howard Merritt” has. Christians should always uphold human rights. Jesus taught us a great deal when he healed the woman who had been bleeding. He taught us that women who…

The Guardian – “Million-selling reformed killer Tony Anthony exposed as serial fantasist”

Well, the secular media have finally broken the story of Tony Anthony. The book was a phenomenon. It was translated into 25 languages and won the Christian Booksellers’ Convention Award in 2005. But now, following a sustained internet campaign by a group of Christians who doubted Anthony’s claims almost from the start, it appears that…

Aren’t Christians banned from eating shellfish?

In several recent on-line debates I’ve seen/been involved in, when discussing the Biblical approach to sexual matters (i.e. “gay” marriage) the critisim has been thrown around that Christians aren’t consistent because we ignore passages on things such as eating of shellfish. My reply to such things is pretty simple – read Acts 15. As gentiles entered the…

“Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” – ridiculously fake

Well, for several days the media was full of the “new evidence” that Jesus was married. Of course, it did nothing of the sort, but it turns out that the fragment in question has even more fundamental problems than that. Like, being copied from a PDF off the internet. Seriously.  Not only does the alleged Gospel fragment…

New Evidence Suggests that Someone Wrote “Jesus” and “Wife” on the same bit of papyrus in the 4th century

Glenn’s got this one covered. I’ll pull out a few quotes. In a statement released by Harvard University, Professor Karen King says “Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim,” This appears to be a strange reversal of duty. If anyone wishes…

A Plea for Christian Common Sense and Healthy Skepticism

What this guy is saying is important: I have long been of the opinion that Christians need to be led by their spiritual leaders into a default attitude of healthy skepticism regarding wild claims of supernatural occurrences. I think non-Christians also need to be educated to exercise a certain amount of common sense skepticism about…

Fake Outrage is Fake

Nasty without any trace of shame

I just read this post on LMC’s blog. The headline material is from here. I’ve been talking about how Sperling has no shame, how the irony in her posts is laid on in spades. But thinking about that for a few seconds just broke my heart. Let me hilight part of that: God’s patience is…

Chuck Colson RIP

I just read on Keeping Stock that Chuck Colson has died. I read his autobiography a couple of years ago, and I think it should be required reading for all political hacks, title notwithstanding. He was in the thick of the Watergate scandal (though by his reckoning, his alleged contribution was as much due to the fevered imaginations of reporters than anything…

Someone Brian could aspire to

As part of tonight’s update on my previous Destiny post, I had a look a their website. As one would expect, there’s plenty of donation buttons and Brian appears promoting his book. Modest eh! I would venture to point out that just perhaps one obvious example of religious and social activism just might come to mind! (I think we…