The Loon Ranger & Taunto

The Tea Bags need their asses handed to them in a way that incontrovertibly crushes their insane and haphazard ideology one and for all as the supposed “America” they want to “take back.”

Torch Me Up, Scottie

The attack against Christians by Beck may turn out to be the most interesting opportunity for Religion to finally provide some genuine open criticism of itself, and quickly provide the sort of self-correction Christianity so desperately needs. So you go, Jim Wallis, and don’t stop until Christianity is once again the religion of Jesus.

Eternity Road: The Isle of God

One of the more astonishing voids in Christian theology is the abject conceptual poverty and shear lack of knowledge about where God supposedly abides: Paradise. There are just three mentions of Paradise in the Bible, and two of those are actually confused references to other places, while the third is a mere mention of Paradise by Jesus to the thief, …

The Pinocchio Principle

The party of “family values” has become the lock-step party of “NO!” values; has become the purveyors of lies, selfishness, cowardice, and designing hypocrisy. . .

Course Correction

You know the cliché: Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. The reason it’s a cliché is because it’s also a truism; for us as well as for you.

Epiphanies

Yes, even insufferable wags can have genuine epiphanies. So when Chris Matthews thinks he has one on the air and shares it with the rest of us, it’s worth examining if for no other reason than to see if it can help us have one, too.

John Zebedee

    Perhaps no other single family contributed more to the work of the mission of Jesus than that of the Zebedees. The Zebedee brothers, James and John, followed two other brothers, Andrew and Peter, into the apostolic core,  and David Zebedee was indispensable as the organizer and manager of a messenger service for the Master’s work.  This is The …