I've never attended a church where the pastor got up on the pulpit and started going off on a political rant. If it ever happened, I'd be one of the first people to get to my feet and walk out, never to return. The closest I've ever seen is a pastor simply encouraging people to […]
This Sunday we bring you this bit of insanity from one of those mainline churches. Several years ago when the Episcopal Church decided that Romans 1 was a bother and the book of Leviticus was right out, they approved the church's first openly gay bishop. At the time, Scott Ott wrote a bit of satire […]
It shouldn't be news to anyone that the typical college campus doesn't really reflect the outside world -- there's a reason it's described as the ivory tower. However, what is news is this survey [PDF format] on college faculty members and their feelings toward religion. MAJOR FINDINGS Most Faculty Believe in God, but Atheism Is […]
Before his death last week, I'd mentioned Moral Majority founder Rev. Jerry Falwell on this blog a total of not once in more than five years of blogging. While Falwell and I would've probably agreed on 98 percent of just about anything, I wasn't a big fan of his style. The foot-in-mouth moment of blaming […]
That doesn't necessarily mean that it is new. It seems every time someone from the mainstream media reads a church newsletter (they don't tend to actually attend the service) and finds a reference to something they didn't know *boom* it's news. Today's illustrative case is this piece by ABC News' Bill Redeker. The evangelical movement […]
Today is Easter and I wanted to touch on a couple of things this morning. First, I finished Dave Shifflett's book "Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity" a couple of weeks ago. I hate to ruin the ending for everyone, but the answer is in an old Aaron Tippin song: "You've […]
Officials in Burinlington Township held a mock hostage crisis a couple weeks ago to prepare police and school employees for the worst. “You perform as you practice,” Superintendent Chris Manno said prior to the exercise. “We need to practice under conditions as real as possible in order to evaluate our procedures and plans so that […]
Apparently the judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals are a bunch of masochists; they love the repeated beatings laid down on them by the Supreme Court. The latest case is Faith Center Church Evangelistic Ministries v. Glover. Quin Hilyer of The American Spectator explains: In its decision, the 9th Circuit majority determined that […]
This Sunday the Discovery Channel is putting on a "documentary" that purports to offer definitive proof that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, had a son named Judah, died and had his bones entombed in an ossuary. Let me start by saying that if all this were true, then Christianity is a hoax and should be […]
The mainstream media doesn't much reflect America when it comes to a variety of issues. The media is largely secular and even more leftist than the communities they represent -- and that's probably true even in San Francisco. So, it should come as little surprise that Poynter highlighted this letter from former newsman Michael Graham […]