Tag: "Religion"
Share my Christmas Tradition: Handel’s Messiah on Christmas Night
One of my personal Christmas traditions (and I have a few) involves a little quiet, a pair of headphones, and a superlative recording of Messiah by Georg Frederich Handel. I do not believe a greater work of exultation and worship has ever been written and Christmas would simply not be the same without it. I [...]
A Little Bach to Extend the Christmas Spirit
I think this evening I’m going to post a couple videos, just to keep the Christmas spirit around for a few extra hours. There’s no need to rush into the end of the year, is there?
The Delivery Presents – We Can’t All Get Along But Can’t We, You Know, Try?
I didn’t try very hard to hide the overall theme of Episode 124 (which I misidentified as Episode 123, for reasons I can only chalk up to being really tired). I’ve noticed lately how easily normally good people have leaned into full-on jerkitude, and not just about politics either. Of course, the election season has [...]
Who Would Jesus Protest?
Want a quick test to see if someone knows the Bible? Ask them if Jesus would be out protesting at Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) today.
Pat Robertson, Cheap Advice Columnist
If I held any regard at all for Pat Robertson before today, I hold none now after he told his vast television audience that people with Alzheimer’s are “kind of dead”. “I know it sounds cruel, but if he’s going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again, but make sure [...]
The Bias and Bigotry of Bill Keller
On Thursday, outgoing executive editor of the New York Times Bill Keller wrote one of the most proudly ignorant columns I have ever had the misfortune to read on the subject of religion and politics. In it, he strongly intimated that Presidential candidates — Republican Presidential candidates, actually, since he obviously didn’t feel that “God [...]
The Camping Heresy: Why the World Won’t End This Weekend
I don’t like ripping fellow Christians on points of faith. I avoid it as often as possible, to the point where I will let minor things slide past me. However, something’s come up recently that I as a Christian and a church teacher simply can not ignore. There is a man named Harold Camping who [...]
What European Christians Have Learned from Islam
Over the past few years, we’ve seen several incidents where violent Muslim protests over relatively minor slights earned big government and corporate concessions. Death threats over a few cartoons of Mohammed caused media outlets all over the world to censor themselves in ways that they would never have done otherwise. Muslims have murdered people because [...]
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