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Where the Wild Things Aren’t

This past Saturday I took my three oldest sons to see the movie Where the Wild Things Are. Some Christians are all exercised about the fact that the movie might be too frightening for children. They’re wrong. The movie is not a great one, but that’s not the reason why. As a matter of fact, Where . . . . Continue Reading »

Where God is Certainly Not a Republican

For some bizarre reason Republicans in the New York 23rd decided to nominate a candidate who is happily pro-choice and against traditional marriage. This is because the New York Republican Party is so successful that it can afford to drive out many of its natural constituencies. (Nominated in a . . . . Continue Reading »

Re: A New Award

Maybe we can work out some sort of exchange program with The Corner. They can loan us an agnostic and we can send over an evangelical.To be fair, I suspect there are a number of evangelicals that write for that blog who just don’t identify themselves as evangelical on there (Mark Hemingway or . . . . Continue Reading »

What is the Gospel?

The discussion on the question “What is an evangelical? has been both fascinating and illuminating. The brilliance of the responses doesn’t surprise me (after all, I picked these folks) but I am surprised by how much I—as a lifelong, unapologeticly self-defined evangelical—am . . . . Continue Reading »

A New Award

I would suggest a “Some Of Our Best Friends” Award for those blogs or political organizations that partly depend on evangelical votes or money, but in fact feature few if any evangelicals.They can be relied on to say, “Some of our best friends are evangelicals. . . ” but can . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s Official!

We’ve been elected the best group blog in Evangelicalism ... by Justin Taylor.My personal opinion is that it comes in at a very admirable #2.JT’s mom voted, btw, and she said Justin’s post yesterday was the best post on the best group blog in Evangelicalism. I’m just . . . . Continue Reading »

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