Though I risk being voted off the island by good sisters and brothers I’ll brave it nonetheless. I believe it’s inaccurate to portray Jesus as an apolitical preacher with nothing to say to his socially prejudiced and politically charged context. In fact, he was and is deeply political, but on his own terms with his …
Tucker Carlson: Superstar or Something Else?
Carlson was fired (his third such firing from media companies) a week after Fox settled with Dominion Voting System for $787 million. I intended to post the following before any of that happened, but now that it has, maybe consider this a eulogy of his Fox career and a preface to his new platform on …
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How Scripture Gets ON Your Heart
I love the Bible and can’t imagine my life without it. Its truths are splints for my soul. God talks to me through it and I wouldn’t relish a life without hearing his voice. A rabbi told his students that if they studied the Torah it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of his …
A Lesson in Empathy
When Willie Mays (now 92 years old) was a young boy, he was being bullied by a bigger kid in school, who took his money from him. So Willie went to his dad and asked him what he should do. Should he fight him, turn him in, or what? His dad told him no. Maybe …
Why I loved Tim Keller
One of the many reasons I loved Tim Keller was that he pastored mostly wealthy Manhattans and yet displayed such courage over the years to say things like the following, based on Mary's song in Luke 1:52-53 “He has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted the lowly. He has filled the hungry …
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