Several members sent me Radio Silence by Mollie Ziegler Hemingway in the March 28 Wall Street Journal. Here is what troubles me: (more…)
Archive for March, 2008
Radio Shows Go Mercy Stays & Politics Rules the World
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Of Style and Substance
Thursday, March 27th, 2008The following will enable those who haven’t placed me in the category of fundamentalist or uneducated to do so now. (more…)
Heaven Waits for those who Congregate
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Don Williams sang in 1980 that he didn’t “believe that heaven waits for only those who congregate.” With due respect to the truth of country music in general and Don Williams in particular, I disagree. (more…)
A Belated Review of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion”
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Four years seems long enough to wait before writing a critical review of a movie that the church for the most part praised. It was thought to be a great vehicle for evangelizing, a great way to bring the Passion of Christ alive. I called it at the time “spiritual pornography,” and I stand by that judgment. (more…)
Everything New is Old
Saturday, March 8th, 2008All quotes are from the book I referenced in an earlier post: Sign of the Kingdom by Lesslie Newbign.
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Ministerial Health
Monday, March 3rd, 2008There’s an oxymoron for you: “Ministerial Health.” According to some researcher somewhere the “average” minister puts in 55 hours a week. He vicariously experiences divorce, death, and disease more times a year then he would like to remember. And besides all this there is the daily pressure on him of concern for all the churches (2 Cor. 11:28). Ministerial health? Nope. There’s ministry and there is health. They don’t go together. To bolster my point I cite one comic and one fact. (more…)