Yesterday, to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (today), President Obama spoke at Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, where MLK himself had spoken some fifty years before. Excerpts: We gather here, on a Sabbath, during a time of profound difficulty for our nation and for our world. In such a time, it soothes the soul to …
The Deadly Viper site is down and Zondervan, the publishers, issued the following letter: November 19, 2009 Zondervan Statement Regarding Concerns Voiced About "Deadly Viper: Character Assassins" From Moe Girkins, President and CEO Hello and thanks for your patience. On behalf of Zondervan, I apologize for publishing Deadly Viper: Character Assassins. It is our mission …
N.T. Wright: I use the word “church” here with a somewhat heavy heart. I know that for many of my readers that very word will carry the overtones of large, dark buildings, pompous religious pronouncements, false solemnity, and rank hypocrisy. … But there is another side to it, a side which shows all the signs …
Reinhold Niebuhr: Perhaps the church ought to be more concerned to bring the goodness of Christ as a judgment upon every fragmentary form of human goodness than to find the particular cause which might be identified with Christ. There are many good causes and just claims which turn to into evil at the precise point …
Play softball: check. My first proper exercise in five weeks! And I went 6-8 in our pickup games and got a little sunburned to boot. Oh, how I’ve missed the glorious ache of well-used muscles. Get homework done: check. Wrote a journal entry and a book review, and read about 250 pages on Bonhoeffer, including …