Anthony Sacramone

Read Richard Mouw’s “Spiritual Consumerism’s Upside,” recently made available online at Christianity Today ‘s website. In it Mouw defends the idea of church shopping as not only inevitable given our diverse religious culture but even exciting and positive. It’s more . . . . Continue Reading »

A junior fellow who shall remain nameless (Nathaniel Peters, graduate of Swarthmore College, photo and other identifying marks to follow) forwarded this YouTube video to me with extreme prejudice. I don’t get it . . . the gentleman in the red jersey obviously enjoys an intense work ethic and . . . . Continue Reading »

I’ve been following the somewhat acrimonious debate over the extent of the biblical canon and the place of the Apocrypha in it that has been taking place between some Reformed (James White, William Webster, and James Swan) and Catholic folk (Gary Michuta and Steven K. Ray) on their respective . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday was the 476th anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession¯an explanation of the proposed Lutheran reforms of the Church, written by Philip Melancthon and approved by Martin Luther¯to Holy Roman emperor Charles V, who, facing attack from without, was eager for . . . . Continue Reading »

? So I was expecting The Blair Witch Project Meets Godzilla vs. Mothra with a fairly decent (read: lousy) “undead slasher chases teens in their underwear” flick thrown in for good measure. Another way of saying, something not so good. ? But Cloverfield wasn’t half bad. It was . . . . Continue Reading »

You have to love the headline: “Military Now Says . . . ” Yeah, right. We’re onto the military and their filthy lies. First they unleash The Mist . Then they silence Dennis Kucinich . Now they’re guiding alien intelligence out of Texas airspace and into another space-time . . . . Continue Reading »

is now becoming a sport . OK, it was a roast , it was a roast of sportscasters (two guys I like, by the way), and it’s easy to go too far. My question is: Why was Jesus the object of Dana Jacobson’s obscenity-laden rant? Because Notre Dame’s coach happened to be in the audience? . . . . Continue Reading »

Now here’s an interesting blog , one that addresses what probably remains a much-too-unremarked-upon phenomenon within the Church. Definitely not for theologians of glory or health-and-wealthers. . . . . Continue Reading »

The latest iteration of Rambo is. And I don’t care that it’s only January. So some Christian missionaries are headed into Burma to bring medicine, food, and the Gospel to victims of genocide. They need Rambo to help them get from Thailand into Burma without inviting attention from . . . . Continue Reading »

Holy Increase Mather! The Church of England is finally cracking down on the black arts . Where is the justice? I don’t see why someone who wants to use his witchcraft for goodliness should be singled out this kind of ill treatment, when there are many in the Anglican Communion who employ . . . . Continue Reading »