It has been said that Evangelicals are five to ten years behind the rest of the culture in terms of embracing fads and trends. That seems about right. Last election cycle, a plurality made a considerable fuss over and selected a candidate for the Presidency of the United States primarily because the individual claimed to be Black. Now it seems movers and shakers within the | Read More »
The Avengers was a good film. However, it was not the greatest superhero movie of all time as has been suggested. And believe me, I have seen some superhero movies. Not much thought went into Hawkeye’s costume. It hardly resembled his ensemble from the comics. The aliens were less than impressive and, along with the wormhole portal opening above a skyscraper, the sequence seemed nearly | Read More »
During the 2012 session, the Maryland State Legislature considered the abolition of the death penalty. Opponents of the practice argued that not everyone receiving the sentence actually committed the crime of which the judicial system found them guilty. However, having only carried out the practice five times since 1977, it is doubtful such miscarriages of justice have been perpetrated all that often in the jurisdiction | Read More »
Though at one time barely considered worthy of the appellation of literature, scholars of popular culture have today established the thesis that comic books and other forms of media expression derived from these illustrated periodicals serve as a snapshot of the perspectives and assumptions prevalent at particular points in American history. Certain characters and series evoke more reflection on certain aspects of culture and ideas | Read More »
At Clinton Christian school in the Maryland suburbs outside of Washington, DC, students gathered in hoodies at a makeshift prayer vigil in support of Trayvon Martin. Does the school intend to hold a rally in support of George Zimmerman as well if it turns out Martin instigated the physical aspect of the confrontation? More importantly, does the school intend to hold a rally in support | Read More »
Is “John Carter of Mars” really as bad a film as critics suggest? Or is it that the story makes the unforgivable suggestion that there are malevolent, largely unseen, elements orchestrating the rise and fall of great powers as they plot the world’s overall destruction? The head of the NAACP is flying to Switzerland to sing to a UN human rights organization of how nobody | Read More »
Yes. Perhaps this is being posted a bit late. However, the points are still valid. If you are going to be that condescending, perhaps you should be reminded that you seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time online obsessively reading columns and articles of those you snidely dismiss as less accomplished than yourself. It is said that the only thing we learn from | Read More »
In the 9/20/11 issues of Sojourners magazine is an advertisement for the 2012 Gladdening Light Symposium featuring Jesus Seminar scholar John Dominic Crossan. Part of the ad copy reads, “Feed the soul, savor the beauty, and experience the communion love of Agape in the Gladdening Light of God.” However, if Crossan is being heralded as what in show business and prize fights circles is called | Read More »
Obama insists he doesn’t want our energy needs linked to unstable parts of the world. Then why did he veto the Keystone Oil Pipeline? Obama remarked his grandparents’ generation triumphed over fascism. Yet fascism is the very economic system that he advocates. Perhaps not yet in terms of wide scale deprivation of human rights but rather in the technical sense of the means of production | Read More »
Use to be during the Christmas season in modern America, if the individual wanted a little buzz during the holidays, they would slip a bit of something into their eggnog. Now, all you have to do to feel that surge of agitated surliness is to turn on the news or read about those turning themselves into the hind quarters of the species the Holy Family | Read More »
A number of the ultrapious are attempting to promote the notion that if there are no godly candidates running in an election, then the true believer should perhaps refrain from voting all together. What we have here is a derivative of the old bait and switch tactic. Both Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum are both deeply motivated by their respective Christian faiths. However, in numerous | Read More »
A law has been enacted by the DC city council not only requiring that must most forms of rodentine vermin be captured for rerelease, but that they must also be relocated as family units. These creatures are not a pod of whales, a herd of elephants, or a troop of gorillas. Given that they will even eat their young and produce another liter a few | Read More »
Christmas is the time of year when the thoughts of most Americans grow to be at their most devout. It is increasingly the time of year that the avowed despisers of the Almighty are at their most disrespectful. Before now, the most culturally embarrassing thing to come out of the wastelands of the Garden State was likely Snooki and her Jersey Shore compatriots. However, it | Read More »
Romney insists in regards to Gingrich that “zany is not what we need in a President”. By that, one must assume Romney considers as “zany” a willingness to at least consider approaches to issues outside of the box and observing where our time fits with the overall flow of history. To Romney, it seems how things are going now are, to use vocabulary fitting with | Read More »
It has been observed that often a picture is worth a thousand words. By this, it is meant that often a witty image can more quickly convey an idea than a written exposition. Another truism nearly as classic insists that the only thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn anything from history. A prime example of these working in tandem could be | Read More »
For about the past two decades, those to the left side of the sociopolitical spectrum have made such a fuss over their hostility towards traditional American holidays and celebrations that the arising disputations have themselves become an anticipated aspect of the close of each year. It was claimed such festivities promote values so vile that these sentiments must be expunged from the civic calendar and | Read More »
The next worldview examined by Geisler in “Christian Apologetics” is Theism. Theism is the belief that a transcendent God created the universe as a reality distinct from Himself but which He actively sustains through both a system of natural law which He created and through divine intervention at the moments He deems such action appropriate for the accomplishment of His divine will. It is Geisler’s | Read More »
Speaking on a Vatican proposal to restructure world finance, a Cardinal declared, “We should not be afraid to propose ideas even if they might destabilize pre-existing balances of power that prevail over the weakest.” And does this include the position enjoyed by the Vatican as well? Or is this yet another example of the “don’t do as I do, do as I say” mentality that | Read More »
On the 6/26/11 edition of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace inquired if Representative Michelle Bachman was a flake. As justification for this line of interrogation, Wallace pointed out an instance where Bachman insinuated that certain members of Congress were anti-American. So apparently in the eyes of those considering Bachman a flake on the grounds it is now allegedly a sign of instability to expose | Read More »
Though the event displays the wonder of God and His creation, no minister can hand down an edict one way or the other whether a particular earthquake other than the ones foretold in prophetic passages of Scripture such as the Book of Revelation was an act of retribution and judgment. Countless congregations no doubt heard from the hyperpious among their number how they were disappointed | Read More »
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