Years ago, there was a radio DJ in Little Rock, Arkansas named Craig O’Neal who used to do some of the funniest on-air prank calls that I’ve ever heard. O’Neal was an Arkansas Razorback fan, so he would often prank call coaches from opposing teams in advance of a Saturday game. When Arkansas entered the SEC and was preparing to play Alabama for the first time, O’Neal was able to get one of the Alabama assistant coaches on the line. O’Neal pretended to be the preacher who would be offering the invocation at the game. It’s a classic. Listen below. For those of you who were wondering, the answer is…
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One More Reason to Pull for LSU
Since 1984, the LSU-Alabama rivalry has served as a predictor of the Presidential election. For the last 28 years, whenever Alabama wins, the Democratic candidate wins. Whenever LSU wins, the Republican candidate wins. If that doesn’t make you an LSU fan, nothing will. It’s your patriotic duty to root against Bama! Geaux, Tigers!
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The Fog of Benghazi
The Wall Street Journal has an editorial that takes into account all the latest reporting on Benghazi. Even with the detailed timeline released by the CIA on Thursday, troubling questions remain unanswered: Why did the U.S. not heed warnings about a growing Islamist presence in Benghazi and better protect the diplomatic mission and CIA annex?
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The Priority of Learning Biblical Languages
The following quote from Martin Luther is well-known in evangelical circles. Nevertheless it seems that every generation of evangelicalism has to struggle with the priority of Greek and Hebrew in theological education. For this reason, I think it’s worth reminding ourselves from time to time of Luther’s sage words. It’s a reminder to educators to hold the line. It’s an encouragement to students to remember the goal of their toil—to know God through His word.
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Revising my prediction about the election?
In what became one of my most unpopular posts ever, I predicted back in September that President Obama would win reelection on November 6. The president had a comfortable lead in the polls then, and I didn’t see any likely scenarios that would allow Governor Romney to catch up to him.
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Affirm the Sacred – Preserve Marriage
Song of Songs 8:6 – Place me as a seal upon your heart, like a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It flashes like fire, the very flame of the Lord. Mark 10:6 – God made them male and female. Genesis 2:24 – For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. And the two will become one…
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Rachel Held Evans on “The View”
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Why was Rachel Held Evans on the roof?
Proverbs 21:9 says, “It is better to live in a corner of a roof, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.” Doug Wilson excoriates Rachel Held Evans’ interpretation of this text, saying: What Evans did was this. Whenever she caught herself being verbally inappropriate, she put a penny in a jar, and every penny represented a minute she had to go up and sit on the roof of her house. This is where I clear my throat tentatively, not sure I could have heard this right. But I did, and there are three obvious things that can be mentioned right off the top. First, the text says that…
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Darth Vader: What are you going to do next?
Here’s yet one more item from Ben Domenech on Disney’s acquisition of the Star Wars franchise.
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How George Lucas Saved Star Wars by Firing George Lucas
Ben Domenech has a fantastic commentary on the recent sale of the “Star Wars” franchise to Disney. In short, Domenech argues that George Lucas saved “Star Wars” by firing George Lucas. Perhaps it comes as news to some of you that Star Wars needed saving. But that’s only because you have very bad taste in movies. (Just kidding…sort of) Seriously, though. Those of us who grew up with the first three movies were by and large really disappointed with the second three movies (i.e., the prequels). From Jar Jar Binks to the goopey love affair between Anakin and what’s-her-name, the story and the characterization were abysmal in the prequels. They…