Faith & Culture:

Abandoning the Murderous "Religion of Peace" for the Prince of Peace, April 4, 2008
For the future of the world and the future of the souls involved, pray that this trend continues....

Whorton Hears a Who, March 24, 2008
Whorton Hears a Who remains the top movie at the box office. If you haven't seen this movie, make sure you do, and in the theater. It's a wonderful movie that, without trying, communicates conservative values incredibly well. Not political/partisan...

Easter Morning, March 23, 2008
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and,...

"Information is our only weapon.", March 12, 2008
An organization calling itself "Anonymous" is battling the Scientology cult via YouTube, with a handful of oddly mesmerizing videos including this one....

The Soft Bigotry of Ivy League Expectations, March 7, 2008
Harvard University has announced that it will close its gyms to openly gay men at certain hours each day so that straight men who are uncomfortable around gays can work out without being made to feel uncomfortable. Any minute now,...

O Little Town of Bethlehem, December 26, 2007
David Warren reports on the history - and dark future - of the birthplace of Jesus....

The Reason, December 25, 2007
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town...

33, December 25, 2007
Justin Mundie wishes you a Merry Christmas and a radical new year....

Happy Hanukkah, December 7, 2007
Via Sharon Cobb, an old Saturday Night Live clip featuring Adam Sandler singing a Hanukkah song. Tonight is the third night of the eight nights of Hannukah, the Festival of Lights, a wonderful celebration of a miracle that also...

Boycott Target?, November 23, 2007
I prefer shopping at Target rather than Wal-Mart - the Wal-Mart shopping experience is horrendous while shopping at Target is a pleasant experience - so this boycott call would cause me problems, except... I don't generally do boycotts. Boycotts generally...

Help Hope, October 19, 2007
Ned Williams emailed the following message, which I wholeheartedly endorse:As you probably know, I volunteer time at Hope Clinic for Women, a ministry that began 25 years ago as a crisis pregnancy center and has expanded over the years to...

In the Mail: Ten Tortured Words, July 25, 2007
In the mail today: Stephen Mansfield's new book Ten Tortured Words, subtitled "How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America ... and What's Happened Since." Mansfield's book explains the history of the original intent of the Constitution's First...

Bible Blogging, July 24, 2007
Here's a link to a fascinating blog I found today, thanks to the Webutante: the One Year Bible Blog. When I was a teenager, the church I attended encouraged all of its members to read through the Bible in one...

Thank God?, June 29, 2007
Mark Daniels has written a thought-provoking piece about the power of prayer and what role prayer may have played in the averted car-bomb terror attack in London today. Daniels mentions author Phillip Yancey's excellent new book Prayer: Does It Make...

Online Outreach, May 13, 2007
E-vangelists seek souls on Web, a feature story in today's The Tennessean, looks at the growing field of cybermissionary work....

Easter: The Tomb is Still Empty, April 8, 2007
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and,...

Good Friday, April 6, 2007
Easter Sunday is my favorite Sunday of the year. It's spring, so the weather and the scenery is usually pretty nice, but that's not why. It's because it marks the anniversary of the resurrection of Jesus the Christ. But Easter...

Prayer Works, Researcher Says, February 26, 2007
David Hodge, an assistant professor of social work in the College of Human Services at Arizona State University, Hodge , has conducted an exhaustive meta-analysis on the effects of intercessory prayer among people with psychological or medical problems and has...

Amazing Grace Review, February 23, 2007
The City Paper's Ron Wynn reviews the new movie Amazing Grace, which opens today at a theater near you....

Amazing Grace, February 12, 2007
The greatest song ever written by man now looks to have inspired a great film. Amazing Grace opens Feb. 23....

Not At The Cost of Our Highest Ideals., January 19, 2007
There's an interesting and rather level-headed op-ed about federal stem cell research policy in today's New York Times. No excerpt, because you should read the whole thing....

A Different Kind of Jihad, January 10, 2007
Ed Morrissey writes, correctly: "It is the responsibility of the immigrant to assimilate into our culture and to obey our laws, not the other way around." Click the link to see what he's talking about involving Muslim cab drivers in...

Camp Update 2, December 15, 2006
The Baptist & Reflector, the statewide newspaper of the Tennessee Baptist Convention, has published a half-apology by editor Lonnie Wilkey to Lipscomb University theology professor Dr. Lee Camp for a column Wilkey wrote last week criticiing Camp based on a...

Camp Update, December 1, 2006
WKRN's religion and ethics reporter Jamey Tucker has done an excellent follow-up on the controversy in recent days over remarks by Lipscomb University theology and ethics professor Dr. Lee Camp regarding fostering good relations between Christians and Muslims. Tucker reveals...

VeggieNailed, September 29, 2006
Michelle Malkin nails NBC for its hypocrisy, cowardice and disrespect for Christianity in her latest vent at HotAir.com....

Blogging for Jesus, July 10, 2006
The WaPo has a story about cyber-savvy pastors becoming bloggers......

Faith and Foreign Policy, July 4, 2006
Dallas Morning News columnist William McKenzie's latest commentary, on the link between faith and foreign policy, is a must-read....

The Rise of the House Church, July 3, 2006
New research from the Barna Group finds a rapid rise in the number of American Christians attending "house churches." In a typical week roughly 20 million adults attend a house church gathering. Over the course of a typical month, that...

Blogging Baptists Update, June 14, 2006
The Wednesday Tennessean notes the role of blogs in electing the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention......

Blogging Baptists, June 13, 2006
Among the coverage of the Southern Baptist Convention in Tuesday's Tennessean, this sidebar: Blogs bring Baptists' conflicts to the fore As the Southern Baptist Convention convenes today, it will grapple with conflicts over doctrine and management - many of which...

The Emergent Church and Blogs, June 2, 2006
Ed Dodds forwarded me the text of a fascinating article in the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, on the "Emergent Church" movement, titled "Postmodern Christianity: Emergent Church and Blogs."Early in the 21st century it is apparent to us that...

USA gives the most, December 26, 2005
by Ben Cunningham This Johns Hopkins Study indicates the US is the most giving country when it comes to cash donations as percent of GDP. A few other nations are more giving of their time. Here is the summary chart...

Intelligent Debate, November 20, 2005
Donald Sensing is right, Charles Krauthammer's column in the Washington Post on intelligent design is a must-read. So go read it. I have an intelligent and workable compromise for the battle over the teaching of evolution and intelligent design in...

Gimme Shelter, November 15, 2005
By Donna Locke Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform Here's a news story about a new federal law that will shield religious groups from prosecution if they are using illegal aliens as volunteers. This means churches and other religious groups...

Banning Aslan, November 15, 2005
by Adam Groves Americans United for Separation of Church and State may file suit in Florida demanding that Governor Jeb Bush not use C.S. Lewis' classic novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as the feature book in a...

Former Muslim: Christians Should Be Confident, Compassionate, Confrontational, November 14, 2005
A former Muslim turned Christian evangelist and scholar says Christians must be confident - even "unashamedly confrontational" - in evangelizing the world. The Tennessean reports on the remarks by Emir Fethi Caner yesterday at Two Rivers Baptist Church as part...

Protestantism is Dead? Good!, October 29, 2005
Tennessean religion commentator Ray Waddle today looks at the much-hyped decline of "Protestantism" in America and notes that while the number of people calling themselves "Protestant" is declining, the number of people in non-denominational or "interdenominational" churches is growing, fast....

Beyond Belief, October 17, 2005
I've been following a series of lessons, "Beyond Belief: Living a Life that is Global, Generational and Generous," online at the website of Fellowship Bible Church of Brentwood, Tennessee. You can watch it online or download the audio as mp3...

Salt is Good For You, October 6, 2005
Tod Bolsinger has some thoughts about being salt and light. You should read Bolsinger's blog often. So should I....

Hooray for Hollyweird, January 14, 2005
Andrew Breitbart comments on Hollywood's disdain for Jesus:I didn't grow up in a particularly religious house, or neighborhood, so I understand skeptics of organized religion. But the same people who mock the story of Jesus, the ones that speak incredulously...

Merry Christmas, Whatever Year This Is, December 25, 2000
Today, Dec. 25, 2000, is either the first Christmas of the third millennium or the last Christmas of the second millennium. Some say the millennium really ends this Dec. 31 because there was no year Zero, and last year's global...