As far as college football goes, this is a bombshell—especially if you’re an LSU fan. Coach Les Miles announced today that Tyrann Mathieu has been dismissed from the LSU football team for breaking team and school rules. Here’s the statement from Les Miles:
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Democratic Platform Draft Language on Gay Marriage
The draft language for the Democratic party platform on gay marriage has just been leaked, the Washington Blade reports. The language will be discussed and possibly amended when the full platform committee meets in Detroit this weekend. Here’s the language: We support the right of all families to have equal respect, responsibilities, and protections under the law. We support marriage equality and support the movement to secure equal treatment under law for same-sex couples. We also support the freedom of churches and religious entities to decide how to administer marriage as a religious sacrament without government interference. We oppose discriminatory federal and state constitutional amendments and other attempts to deny…
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Interview with Rachel from Chick-fil-a
Fox News snagged an interview with the Chick-fil-a worker named Rachel who was berated by a drive-thru customer last Wednesday. In the accompanying article, Rachel explains why she responded so magnanimously: “I’m Christian and God tells us to love thy neighbor.” Watch the interview above. (HT: Danny Akin)
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Trailer Released for Movie about Bin Laden Manhunt
The movie is called Zero Dark Thirty, and it was originally slated to be released in October—just in time for the presidential election. But now the word is that it won’t hit theaters until December. Here’s a description of the film from Entertainment Weekly:
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Call it what it is—the Westboro cult
I grow weary of editorials and commentators who make facile comparisons between orthodox Christianity and the fringe group known as “Westboro Baptist Church.” Just this week, The Baltimore Sun published an editorial comparing Chick-fil-a president Dan Cathy to the Westboro extremists. I know not everyone can be a religion reporter, but this kind of ignorance of the basic differences between mainstream evangelicals and Westboro hatred is inexcusable.
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Southern Baptists and Calvinism
Over the last several years, Southern Baptists have been having a pretty intense intramural debate about Calvinism. In a conversation that sometimes generates more heat than light, I am glad to see a recent conference that was more constructive. The conference was called “Calvinism: Concerned? Curious? Confused?” and it featured a panel of four Southern Baptist leaders who addressed the division in the SBC over this issue. Speakers included David Dockery, Frank Page, Hershel York, Kevin Smith, and Steve Lemke.
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I Am the God of Wine
I have always believed it to be a great irony that a Baptist minister should be named after the Greek “god of wine,” but I am. I will never forget as a young man stumbling across a “baby names” book in my house and flipping quickly to the D‘s to find out what my name meant. And before I knew it, there it was: “Dennis: the Greek god of wine.” I was gobsmacked. I was only ten years old, but I had been Baptist long enough to know that something was terribly amiss. As far as I knew, my teetotaling parents had given me my name, but this just wasn’t…
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Man Apologizes to Rachel, the Chick-fil-a Worker
Earlier this week, I pointed to a video of a guy who protested Chick-fil-a on Wednesday by giving the “what for” to the girl working the drive-thru window at Chick-fil-a. He posted a video of the encounter on YouTube and lost his job as a result.
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Tom Schreiner on the “first task” of interpreting Paul
I doubt that I will write a full-length review of Michael Bird’s edited volume Four Views on the Apostle Paul, but I will make some remarks on it here and there as I read through it. In the book, the first “view” on Paul is the “reformed reading” by Tom Schreiner. In commenting on Paul’s view of salvation, Schreiner says this: How can God command people to keep his law and to repent and believe when they are utterly unable to do so? Our first task is to explain Paul, even if his worldview is foreign to ours. We must beware of conforming him to our worldview and of only…
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Does the press overlook Gabby Douglas’ Christian faith?
After winning the gold last night for the Olympic gymnastic all-around competition, Gabby Douglas gave “all the glory to God” on live television. Yet Marvin Olasky notes how press reports today by and large have omitted Douglas’s conspicuous Christian faith from their coverage of her victory. The New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times all left it out, even though Douglas has repeatedly mentioned it as a key part of her life and performance in the games. Olasky explains: