Like most sports controversies, the Tebow story is already yesterday’s news. Google his name and you will see how few stories there are out there over the last month. He was hot for a while: Denver had a nice little run with him back in the dark ages of two seasons ago, and then the New York Jets fans and team kicked him to the curb and said good riddance. Since the New York Jets released Tim Tebow, various voices have either relegated his name to that junkyard reserved for superior college athletes that could
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The early councils had as their primary purpose the defense and establishment of truth, not unity. —Rousas J. Rushdoony, Foundations of Social Order (1978) Loving Those Who Hate God? “Should you help the ungodly, and love those who hate God?”  This was the rhetorical question the prophet Jehu put to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah (2 Chron. 19:2).  Jehoshaphat had gone to Israel, the northern kingdom, on a good will visit.  The two Hebrew kingdoms had been at odds for a long time, and Jehoshaphat was trying to fix things up.  He hoped to reunite the
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“There is no other stream,” said the Lion. -C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (2009) Wash, and Be Clean Naaman and his entourage pulled up before the prophet’s hovel of a home.  Naaman was ready to be impressed and amazed.  His master, the king of Syria, had his own court magicians, and they put on a pretty good show.  But the prophet of God must be in a class all his own.  After all, he could cure leprosy.  Naaman’s little servant girl had said so, and now the king of Israel had confirmed it.  Elisha
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NASHVILLE, TN – Southern Baptist chaplains are reporting that SBC.net, the official web site of the Southern Baptist Convention has been blocked at military installations across the nation. The Southern Baptist Convention is the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and is known for its support of the pro-life movement and its strong belief in traditional marriage. The censorship became public after an Army officer attempted to log onto the denomination’s website but instead received a warning message. “The site you have requested has been blocked by Team CONUS (C-TNOSC/RCERT-CONUS) due to hostile content,” the message read.
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The confusion surrounding Christ’s view of self-defense is almost unavoidable.  Christ certainly does tell his followers to “turn the other cheek,” but at the same time, the same man told his disciples to buy swords (Luke 22:36).  Is this a scriptural contradiction, coming from the same source?  At first glance, it would appear to be; however, there are some biblical concepts that don’t always make it through the confusion caused by changing culture, languages, regimes, and histories over the course of the last 2,000 years.  Needless to say, it does take some explaining to get
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…and then there were other people on the island.  We called them the Others, and they started attacking us.     —Hurley, Lost (2009) The primary role of anthropology thus was a process of ‘inventing the human other’ in order to develop a theory of humankind. —Sundar Sarukkai, “The ‘Other’ in Anthropology and Philosophy” (1997) The Children’s Story The war is over, and they have won.  This is the background for James Clavell’s short classic, The Children’s Story (1981).  Clavell shows us a class of second graders in some generic school after the fall of the United
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They showed a piece of paper saying “eminent domain.” —Buckner and Garcia, Wreck It, Wreck-It Ralph (2012) Think about it: What the Court said was that the government can take your property from you and give it to someone else simply if it believes that someone else will make better use of it. —Malcolm Gladwell, “The Nets and NBA Economics” (2011) Wreck-It Ralph Disney’s latest hit, Wreck-It Ralph (2012), shows us the behind-the-scenes life of arcade game characters.  The protagonist, not-yet-hero, is Wreck-It Ralph, “a giant of a man.”  In the game he spends all
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“Such are the facts of history.  The reader will make his own comments upon them.” —Bishop John Wordsworth “An Act of God.” —The official cause of a fire in an abortion clinic. The Judgment of God? Arius, the arch-heretic condemned at Nicea, stood before the Emperor and swore that his beliefs were now orthodox.  Constantine accepted his oath, though with a warning, and ordered the bishop of Constantinople, one Alexander, to receive Arius into communion.  But Alexander didn’t believe Arius’s confession, and so, prostrate on the church floor, he cried out to God: If Arius
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Occultism surfaces as a cultural phenomenon at the end of civilizations. —Gary North, Unholy Spirits (1986) …But speak the Name of Christ, and he shall see how through Him demons are routed, oracles cease, and all magic and witchcraft is confounded. —Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word (c. 320) Who’s Calling the Shots? “And now, please, attend very carefully,” the professor said.  “You have probably not heard of macrobes.” Mishearing the word, Mark Studdock looked up from the floor of his cell and began to object.  Of course he had heard of microbes, microscopic
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For the goddess brings forth the great sun and the bright moon. —Zoroaster, The Chaldean Oracles (c. 250 BC) True spirituality is not achieved in our own energy… It is the power of the crucified, risen, and glorified Christ, through the agency of the Holy Spirit, by faith. —Francis Schaeffer, True Spirituality (1971) “The Goddess Is Alive” The late twentieth century saw the rebirth of goddess worship in the West.  This religion is essentially pantheistic.  It assumes the existence of a feminine spirit or principle immanent in the Earth or in the cosmos itself.  It
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