Boldly professing the obvious since 2009
In Part One, we looked at how Washington, DC, pastor Anthony Evans’ declaration that the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a case challenging the DC gay marriage law has set up a “civil war between the church and the gay community” reflected common misunderstandings of the foundations of US government. Part Two dealt with how [...] Read more »
In the spirit of today’s holiday in honor of one of the greatest men of the twentieth century, I thought it might be good to post a few brief quotes from Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” written April 16, 1963. These words are no less powerful (and needed) today than they were when [...] Read more »
It inevitably comes up every year: the question of how parents of young children should handle Santa Claus. For some, this is a highly impassioned subject; with many liking to remind everyone as often as possible that “Santa” is an anagram of “Satan”—or, if not giving this trite spelling lesson, at least asserting that Santa [...] Read more »
My Journal of Religion and Film review of Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” is now available. There was a lot I had to leave out due to space constraints, but overall I’m pleased with the outcome, minus the grammatical error the editor managed to introduce into my article. (My version had said, “as C. S. Lewis . [...] Read more »
Michael Snyder’s recent Yahoo! Finance article points out quite a few disturbing trends that signal the disappearance of the middle class in the United States, as the gap between the “haves” and “have-nots” continues to increase: • 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people. • 61 [...] Read more »