I travelled to and from Atlanta last week with my good friend Jim Hamilton. When we arrived back in Louisville yesterday, there was a reporter waiting at the security check-point. He wanted to interview us about our experience with the new TSA security procedures (video above, text version here). In short, he wanted to know if we had been through a full body scanner or had been patted down. Neither of us went through a scanner, but I did get patted down in Atlanta. For some reason, the reporter missed that detail and reported that none of the travelers he interviewed had been patted down. That was incorrect. I was.…
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Cal Thomas on Media Bias
I love this excerpt from a Cal Thomas column explaining how liberal media bias usually happens: “For a conservative guest, the questioning by a liberal usually goes something like this: ‘What do you say to people who think you are a jerk?’ Translated this means, ‘I think you’re a jerk, but I’ll couch it in a way that makes me look professional.’ To a liberal guest, the liberal host asks: ‘When did you first realize you were right about everything and the opposition was wrong?’ I exaggerate only slightly to make a point. What passes for modern ‘journalism’ is something quite different from what I remember growing up.” (HT: Trevin…
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Great News from Matt Chandler
This is wonderful news from Matt Chandler about the results of his MRI yesterday. He reports: “The scan came back 100% clean… For the first time throughout this whole thing, the doctors were… visibly excited by the scan, as if they think we beat this thing.” Praise the Lord for that news!
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Did he really say that?
I’m reading President George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, and I’m finding it difficult to put it down. I’m puzzled by one anecdote near the beginning of the book that I thought deserved some comment. The story is about a Bush family gathering in Kennebunkport in the mid-80’s, and the Reverend Billy Graham was their special guest. At a discussion session after dinner one night, President George H. W. Bush asks Reverend Graham a question, and here’s how the younger President Bush recounts what happened:
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Interview with George W. Bush
Matt Lauer has an exclusive interview with President George W. Bush that will air tonight at 8pm ET / 7pm CT. The interview is timed to coincide with the release of President Bush’s memoir Decision Points, which hits the shelves tomorrow (3am tomorrow morning if you’re downloading to Kindle). In the excerpt above, President Bush talks about Vice-president Cheney’s angry reaction to Bush’s decision not to pardon Scooter Libby. He also talks about his decision to quit drinking.
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Charlie Brown on Tonight
Tonight’s the night! The classic animated Halloween PEANUTS special, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” is on tonight, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.
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1 in 10 Teens Have Same-Sex Experience
I read the headline earlier this week that 1 in 10 teens reports having sexual encounters with someone of the same sex. What I didn’t know until this morning is that the news story had reported incorrectly what the study actually said. Kevin DeYoung has done us all a service by actually consulting the study behind the report. Here’s what he found:
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W Conference for Women
Mary Kassian is coming to Southern Seminary for a Women’s Conference on November 19-20. Kassian is an award winning author and internationally renowned speaker. Her latest book, Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild, was just released this past spring. Grammy nominated artist Heather Payne will be doing music. This looks to be a fantastic conference. Find out more about the conference and register here.
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An Egalitarian Gets Biblical
Rachel Held Evans is an egalitarian, and she wants to live according to the Bible for one year… just to see what it’s like. Her aim is to follow all the commands that are directed to women. Among other things, this project will include “submitting” to her husband as Colossians 3:18 teaches. She invites everyone to follow along on her blog to track her progress. Thomas Nelson has agreed to publish a book in 2012 describing her year of living obediently. There is an irony here. She says that she is going to obey the Bible’s commands as “literally” as possible. She seems to be admitting that the “literal” interpretation…
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Simon Gathercole To Lecture in Kentucky
Simon Gathercole will be lecturing at Campbellsville University next month in Campbellsville, Kentucky. There will be three lectures and a chapel service, and they will be on the topic of Christ’s atonement. The dates are November 17-18. Here’s the schedule: Chapel: Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, 10 a.m. Lecture 1: Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, 11 a.m. – NoonLecture 2: Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, 11 a.m. – NoonLecture 3: Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Gathercole is a world class New Testament scholar and a riveting lecturer. If you are able to be there, I would recommend taking advantage of this opportunity. For more information, here’s a flyer advertising…