SAVE YOURSELF!
Ever wear a life preserver when you were in a boat? Ever wear your seatbelt when you drive? Ever get a flu shot? Those are all actions that many folks choose to avoid because they’re inconvenient or uncomfortable, despite the fact they could save your life. Gambling with your life is pretty foolish. Gambling with [...]
Tom Cruise, Scientologist
This video, available through YouTube, offers us a chilling snapshot of Scientologist, Tom Cruise waxing philosophical about his faith. In fairness to Cruise, the “interview” is a bit hard to follow, because, in it, there are no questions shown being asked of him. It appears that if any questions were asked, they were edited out [...]
Biblical Quandaries
As a Bible believing Christian, I am well acquainted with problem passages in scripture and how scholars resolve them. In the past, I even ascribed to some of the explanations for apparent logical contradictions/problem texts. Below is just one which I didn’t used to have a problem with, because I accepted the “exception to the [...]
Know Any Good Ministers?
By Ray Robinson MTW contributing writer My wife and I faced one major hurdle on our way to wedded bliss – who would perform the ceremony? I’m a Christian and she is not, and neither of us were interested in changing, nor were we asking each other to change. A church wedding was out, as [...]
Plastic Jesus and the tit-for-tat gospel
I recently received another health and wealth gospel tract/word of faith solicitation in the mail. This one comes as part of a mass mailing campaign aimed at Christians who don’t know any better. Being a Christian myself, I’m completely disgusted with this stuff. What is the health and wealth/word of faith movement? Nothing more than [...]
Debating evolution and ID requires level playing field
Recently, I posted some commentary about Richard Dawkins’ appearance on the O’Reilly Factor. That post generated some interesting discussion among a couple of our readers (Brad & Diego) and one of our writers (Cal August). After reading the posted comments I felt that both sides were arguing past each other (imagine that). The following is [...]
The Melting Cult
Cults have been around for a long time, and will be around for a long time?as long as there are people who choose not to think for themselves and desperately want someone else to do it for them. Until recently, my favorite cult of all time was the Zetatalk cult, led by self-proclaimed prophet, and [...]
The Secular Media versus Religion: Taking the Gloves OFF!
The mainstream media seems to be overwhelmingly comprised of secularists. Why does the mainstream media so often explicitly and implicitly mock faith, especially Christian faith? The only way to understand the secular media mentality is to understand the secular mentality. There is a great divide between the primarily secular humanistic viewpoint and that of any [...]
When Tim Hardaway Came Out
When Tim Hardaway came out—against homosexuality in the NBA that is—I was expecting that the outcry would be swift and merciless. There could have been a bigger outcry, but Hardaway apologized almost as swiftly as he made the comments. In all honesty, there are a lot of males who without a second thought would say [...]
Holiday Exposé
It’s Christmas time again. Time for Charlie Brown, home-baked cookies, and oh yeah, specials on journalistic TV shows about who Jesus’ mother and father really were, and what Jesus’ real mission on Earth was. In the holiday tradition of the late Peter Jennings (ABC) they’re still doing this stuff. All it requires is the author [...]