May 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Those who write stories influence the broad cultural narratives that determine the direction and health, or lack thereof, of a society. For too long Christians have left the writing of these narratives to people who do not share our worldview or the underlying assumptions about the nature of reality. Both fiction and non-fiction are important and contribute on one way or another to what people believe and base their lives on.
Many Christians will say the Bible is one long narrative we call redemptive history, and God didn’t convey his will to us through propositions. Yet God chose Paul, and the other writers of the epistles, to interpret or give meaning to the stories. You need both; but stories are especially powerful in capturing the imagination of a people and a culture, and thus its manners, morals and mores. Human nature and the reality of God’s created order, good and fallen at the same time, give us an endless supply of potential stories.
ChristianWriters.com is a resource for, believe it or not, Christian writers! They state their purpose succinctly:
ChristianWriters.com offers an open and friendly community, resources, and tools for authors who are followers of Jesus Christ.
Websites and communities like this are an encouraging reminder that Christians in the 21st Century are slowly but surely coming out of their cultural cocoon.
May 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
I confess that I hate Tom Brady. Ever since the snot nosed kid beat my St. Louis (previously LA) Rams in the 2002 Super Bowl, I’ve despised him. Plus he’s handsome, rich, married to a gorgeous woman, and wins all the time, not that I’m jealous or anything. So I was trying to suppress my glee and schadenfreude this morning when I read headlines such as, “Tom Brady’s image is flattened as Deflategate report is released.” Or one highlighted on Drudge, “PAPER: Tom Brady Suspension ‘Could Span Up To One Season’…” (more…)
May 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Since Baltimore and its discontents broke upon the national seen a couple weeks ago, the left and the right have been arguing over the causes of inner city unrest in America. For the progressive, the issues are racism and poverty; if these didn’t exist there would be no riots. Black anger is completely justified. Conservatives counter that the fundamental cause of the unrest goes deeper, that it is cultural, especially the breakdown of the black family. I think everyone could agree on one thing: whatever the causes, the problems facing what used to be called the ghetto are deeply complex and not easily solved. (more…)
May 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
This is a pattern. For whatever reason, liberals feel compelled — whether out of self-delusion or deliberate deception — to lie about the fact that they are liberals. . . . Unfortunately, the vast majority of the Beltway establishment, particularly political journalists, believes these talking points, largely because they, too, are committed liberals who think they are mere non-ideological arbiters of the facts.
–Jonah Goldberg, “Why Does the Left Continue to Lie about Its Ideological Agenda?”
Apr 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
After more than a hundred years of progressivism, it has come to this: public officials in Baltimore are so afraid of their own citizens because of the recent riots that they forced Major League Baseball to hold a game in a completely empty stadium. Bill Plaschke, a sportswriter at the LA Times put it like this:
Fans were barred from the game because officials feared for their safety in the wake of Baltimore-area riots in protest over the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American man who died in police custody. While barring the gates at potentially dangerous games occasionally occurs at hooligan-plagued soccer stadiums around the world, it was the first time that fans have been locked out of an American professional sports event. This resulted in the smallest crowd in major league baseball history — zero in paid attendance — and also surely one of its lowest moments.
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Apr 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman. [It’s a] fundamental bedrock principle that exists between a man and a woman, going back into the mists of history as one of the founding, foundational institutions of history and humanity and civilization, and that its primary, principal role during those millennia has been the raising and socializing of children for the society into which they are to become adults.
–Hillary Clinton, “Like the President and Hillary, My Views on Marriage Have Evolved”
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