I originally wrote this as a Facebook note back in July 2016. But seeing as how they got rid of Notes, I’ve copied it over here. On Friday, I posted a link to an article by Dr. Brent Aucoin, a professor and dean at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. It discussed…

A video of Michael W Smith playing at Franklin Graham’s latest “Trump and COVID in the Name of Jesus” event has been making the rounds on Twitter. …

Once again, John MacArthur has made a definitive declaration about the salvific state of others. And, as predictable as warm weather in Arizona in August, his defenders have come out of the woodwork to defend him and tell us “what he really meant.” But what is more disturbing is how…

There are two views regarding the “civil disobedience” statement and actions taken at Grace Community Church.* But I’m not here to talk about that. In an article regarding a recent service, the writer recounts how John MacArthur was apparently so certain of his viewpoint as expressed in the statement (and…

(This was originally written in 2016.) OK, first of all, can we please dispense with the countrier-than-thou, false juxtaposition nonsense that hails the classic country stars while deriding current stars whose music blends in pop and/or rock? I have friends in their 30s passing around silly memes that claim that…

Dr. Sanjeet Singh-Saluja is a Canadian physician and a Sikh. One of the major tenets of his faith is called kesh, the practice of allowing one’s hair to grow naturally out of respect for the perfection of God’s creation. This is why you always see Sikh men with a full…

Having completed its commitments of charitable giving to the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Chick-fil-A recently decided not to renew these commitments, but to direct further giving elsewhere. This has many conservative Christians up in arms — or, at least, questioning the decision — as it appears…

45-plus years ago, we learned the following song in my highly conservative (both politically and theologically) Christian elementary school: Jesus and Others and You What a wonderful way to spell “JOY” Jesus and Others and You In the life of each girl and each boy J is for “Jesus”, for He has first place O…

In my younger days, I would chafe whenever someone would refer to those of us with a pro-life ethic as “anti-abortion” or “anti-choice”. Framing the ethic as a negative was, at best, unhelpful — attempting to define us by what we were against, instead of what we were for. THE FIRST SHOE DROPS However…