A few years back I saw a skit entitled "This is Not Your Life." The skit had one young guy who had just died. An "angel" was showing him the things he did not do in his life. I was taking this in until he showed him one of those undone things: stealing a baby …
Why Don’t Churches Make Disciples?
Robert Easter at Sanctifusion asks this question, and answers as follows: Our world view is all wrong. "Be holy as I am holy" is not a core conviction. We prefer the things that are "more exciting" - like worship, harvesting tithes, building buildings, getting on the latest trendy movement of evangelicalism. Not intentional enough. We …
Message to Barack Obama: Why My Family Business Left Chicago
Back in May, Steve Sailer quoted the following from Barack Obama's autobiography, Dreams From My Father: As we walked back to the car, we passed a small clothing store full of cheap dresses and brightly colored sweaters, two aging white mannequins now painted black in the window. The store was poorly lit, but toward the …
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Thoughts on the Upcoming Church of God General Assembly: “I don’t know if my church loves me any more or not”
Around the time of the 2006 Church of God General Assembly in Indianapolis, I began writing my last novel, The Ten Weeks. At the core of the plot is the story of one French Catholic high school senior, Madeleine des Cieux, who performs a series of miracles. This generates a number of reactions, but her …
Reply to Alan Munday on “The Traditional Anglican Communion considering swimming the Tiber”
I recently received a message from +Alan Munday regarding both the recent decision by the Church of England to ordain women bishops, the Traditional Anglican Communion's ongoing discussions with the Vatican, and my article Think Before You Convert. I'll reproduce this in its entirety (it was broadcast in a couple of newsgroups) along with some …
If the Term “Black Hole” is Racist, What About “Black Market?”
Things in "Big D" have made a strange turn with this: County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts. Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black …
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But Do They Want “Slow Women Working” Signs?
An Atlanta magazine editor has managed, in one place at least, to eliminate the "Men Working" signs that warn of construction: Public Works officials are replacing 50 "Men Working" with signs that say "Workers Ahead." It will cost $22 to cover over some of the old signs and $144 to buy new signs, said Public …
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Please Search the Book Again
This week's podcast puts this website into a realm few thought we would go: Southern Gospel. The song is Please Search the Book Again, from the Greenville, SC group Southern Joy on their album Over the Next Hill. If you're wondering whether a search through this book would turn up your name or not, click …
Unlawful Conjugal Relations, and the Double Standard of Money and Islam
The woes of a British publisher who was jailed in Dubai for "unlawful conjugal relations" (i.e., with someone she's not married to) in public makes me think of the obvious: what if someone was jailed for this in a "Christian" country with a lot less money (and that's most of them these days, compared to …
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But What if the Food is Really Bad?
The Brits have gone "over the top" again on political correctness, this time with food preferences: Toddlers who say "yuck" when given flavorful foreign food may be exhibiting racist behavior, a British government-sponsored organization says. The London-based National Children's Bureau released a 366-page guide counseling adults on recognizing racist behavior in young children, The Telegraph …
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