First thing I encountered this morning was a link to Michael Marcavage’s article in Christiannews.net horrifically titled, “Tattoos for Jesus? Group Raises Funds for ‘Church Plant’ by Tattooing Members, Sampling Booze.”  I had been wondering when Marcavage, a campaigner for abstinence and critic of Jeff Durbin...

James White missed the opportunity to learn. To grow. To move toward a better and stronger church in light of the challenges put forward by Ekemini, Jemar, and others.

So writes Marcos Ortega in an April 1st blog article at “Reformed Margins.”  It is a well written article—but it continues the same theme of, “If you...

Last week I ran afoul of the ever-present issue of political correctness when I posted a brief video of a young man flipping off a passing police car, wearing his shorts around his thighs, and then tossing the drink bottle he had just finished after flipping off the cops onto the ground, all in front of all the waiting traffic during rush hour....

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I just got home from watching The Young Messiah with my wife and son.  A few quick thoughts.

1.  I think it would be best, personally, to leave what the Spirit has not revealed to the wisdom of God.  None of the gnostic gospels were helpful.  It just isn’t a needed area of speculation.
2. I do not think it is a...

So I jumped in the car last night to run an errand and right then the CNN/Salem folks were interviewing Pastor Jeffress, the famous mega-church Southern Baptist pastor who seems to have a real knack for getting on television.  Most of the time, of course, we can be thankful for what Pastor Jeffress has to say, but sometimes we are left...

Just a quick note (and a test at the same time) regarding my reading of the Protevangelium of James on the DL today.  I was up against a time deadline so I wasn’t able to comment as much as I would have liked, but I wanted to make sure folks understood the centrality of the story regarding the birth of Jesus to later mythological and...