No real Texan believes that chili is chili if it has beans. I am no Texan, so I don’t know about chili, but I do know about the papacy and no matter how much Beane is added to it, it’s still the antichrist. (more…)
If you’re listening to the financiers, bankers, and politicians, we’re teetering on the brink. They’re saying what Barry McGuire sang in his inimitable voice: it’s the “Eve of Destruction.” Barry wanted everyone twisted in knots over war, racism, and nuclear holocaust. Today we’re invited to be in knots because mammon says our future is bleak. Christians, however, can be the one Barry is singing against, “And you tell me/ Over and over and over again, my friend/ Ah, you don’t believe/ We’re on the eve of destruction.” At least we don’t believe it they way the fearmongers want us to. (more…)
Having “slandered” old African proverbs in another post, I thought I’d move on in the spirit of the recent Olympic Games to praise new Chinese fortune cookies. (more…)
You’ll recall that the 2004 Convention said that woman can be elders as long as it doesn’t involve them in the function or accountability of the pastoral office. As of 31 July 2008 three of the nine elders at Trinity, Lexington Park, MD are women. If you would like to see for yourself go to here: (more…)
G.K. Chesterton said, “Men may or may not expect an act of healing to take place at a holy well, but nobody expects it ten miles from the well” (”The New Jerusalem,” Collected Works, Volume XX, p. 308). Nobody except modern “Christian” men. (more…)