Archive for the ‘Arts’ Category
Encountering the gospel as fairy tale
November 19th, 2012 by Sarah Jackson
TweetLate one night, a few weeks back, I whizzed down a California freeway with my A.C. blasting and a radio preacher’s voice blaring. My eyelids felt heavy, like they were weighted down with mud — the same thick mud I felt I had been trudging through all week. And then the preacher’s voice rumbled, loud [...]
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My Lovely Wife’s Reasonable Ultimatums
August 6th, 2012 by L. James Everett, III.
TweetMy wife gives me ultimatums. I know that the plural of “ultimatum” is “ultimata,” not “ultimatums.” But, that’s okay. It’s not one of her ultimatums that I spell every word I use correctly. The most recent ultimatum was that I am no longer allowed, after many many years of marriage, to say/shout “It’s pretend time” [...]
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Why good thinking requires a soul
March 26th, 2012 by Dale Fincher
TweetWhen Peggy Noonan published, We’re More than Political Animals, in the March 3 opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, she made an important observation about the freedom to think for ourselves. Here is her context: The other day in a seminar at a university, a student of political science asked a sort of complicated question that [...]
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The Scientist and the Ethicist
December 5th, 2011 by Dale Fincher
TweetNobody enjoys going to the doctor. In fact, I myself have a certain anxiety over needles and sterile, medical-like objects that have led me to the near brink of losing consciousness even over simple things like TB tests. At the same time, I have rarely met a doctor who wasn’t kind and sympathetic to his [...]
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The Message vs. the Messenger
December 5th, 2011 by Dale Fincher
TweetRecently I visited the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. The exhibit traces evangelistic movements from the Reformation to modern times and how the gospel of Jesus spread globally through such spokesmen as Martin Luther, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield, Charles Finney, D.L. Moody, and many others. At the end of the timeline is the beginning [...]
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