“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” — Jesus This verse says as much about heaven as it does children. What does it mean that “heaven belongs” to children? Does that insinuate that all children automatically go to heaven? Perhaps. [...]
Leftists have hijacked the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. It is now fashionable for social justice and civil rights advocates of any stripe to attach their cause to his. Gay rights and abortion rights activists regularly invoke the name of the slain civil rights leader (even though there’s dispute on both counts whether King [...]
By far, the most interesting, but least explored angle to the Manti Te’o “girlfriend hoax” is how the story was broken by a “new media” outlet. The mainstream media completely missed the story. The Guardian explains how the hoax has forced US journalists to “face uncomfortable self-reflection”: The list of national media outlets that didn’t [...]
A couple of brief thoughts on comics writer Grant Morrison‘s debut book, Supergods, and his recent interview in Wired magazine. The book “probes superhero myths” from a decidedly new slant. Whereas superheroes have traditionally been cast in a monotheistic worldview, inhabited by ultimate Good and Evil, some even representative of Christ-figures, Morrison envisions new gods [...]
I recently spoke to a man (I’ll call him Jim) who’s a tremendously talented writer, but who’s dreadfully afraid of having his stories misunderstood. Yes, he’s a rather neurotic fellow. But he’s also extremely imaginative and quite gifted with words. Jim’s been writing for decades now — screenplays, short stories, poems — but has yet [...]
Fantasy, often of the YA variety, appears to comprise the largest segment of the Christian Speculative Fiction category. Bryan Davis, Jill Williamson, Donita K. Paul, Wayne Thomas Batson, Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Christopher Hopper, Jeffrey Overstreet, D. Barkley Briggs, C.S. Lakin, Vox Day, Karen Hancock, G.P. Taylor, Stephen Lawhead, are just a few of the Christian [...]
Question: Do you ALWAYS live the way you think you should? Do you PERFECTLY embody your own morals and standards? If you answer “yes,” I could say you were a liar. If you answer “no,” I could say you were a hypocrite. Question: So does your being a “liar” or a “hypocrite” make your standard [...]
In my post The Anti-Evangelical Hate Machine, I criticized what I consider a growing trend: “…an entire movement bent on cataloging, ridiculing, scoffing at, lampooning, and mocking evangelical culture.” In that post, I referenced eight different individuals whom I believed fit into that category. By far, the most criticism I received on that post was [...]
“Ebooks should be cheap because they cost so much less to produce. No paper, no printing or storage costs. No shipping, no returns.” “But you still have to pay for editing, cover art, and marketing. And there needs to be some buffer because of pirating.” “Still, you can sell so many more copies if you [...]
My top FICTION reads of last year were 1.) The Monstrumologist, 2.) The Stand, and 3.) Sandman Slim. My top NON-FICTION reads of the year were 1.) Occult America, 2.) Christian Apologetics, and 3.) Outliers. A couple of these books were started and not finished. I’ve listed them because I spent enough time with the [...]
