Without my glasses, I’m as blind as a rock. The myopic gene with which my father gifted me is so bad (“How bad is it?”) that I got into an argument with an ophthalmologist once about when I first needed glasses: “With eyesight this bad, you needed glasses as soon as you exited the birth…

It’s Holiday kick-off season, and the way I know is the proliferation of, “Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?” articles, blogs, and sermons. Of course, we all know that the answer is, “No, TRUE Christians don’t celebrate Halloween,” and I was expecting more of the same when I saw BeliefNet’s own Should Christians Celebrate Halloween? by senior editor Rob…

As a Christian and a human being, I avoid the word “should,” because it’s generally used by Person A against Person B, to get Person B to do what Person A wants. So when I use it, I’m serious. And I’m serious about a sentence that Christians regularly bandy about as a means to prove that…

You know, for a society absolutely saturated in violence, sexuality, and offensive language, we’re remarkably oversensitive  at the oddest times, and statements that were a joke ten years ago approach secular blasphemy today. Specifically, I’m thinking of the no-win question, “Do you still beat your dog?” Attacking Your Dog On a witness stand, with a…

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