The irony of the tolerance police never ceases to amaze me. Perhaps you’ve heard about their latest sting operation aimed at Chick-fil-a. It all began earlier this week when Dan Cathy, the President of Chick-fil-a, told a reporter that the company was pro-family. He did not mention gay marriage. Nor did he say anything specifically about homosexuality. Cathy simply said this:
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Praise God for Jared Wilson’s Humility
If you haven’t taken time to read Jared Wilson’s latest blog post, go read it now. He has removed his “50 Shades of Gray” commentary that caused such a stink this week. He also explains why and offers an apology. There is much wisdom and humility in what he has written, and we all have something to learn from it. I know I do, at least. Jared stood accused of some pretty horrendous things these last few days (as did Doug Wilson)—things that were demonstrably false. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been to watch the false accusations accumulate across the internet. How much more difficult finally…
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Les Miles on Losing the National Championsip
It’s getting close to that time of year again, which means I’ll be blogging about college football on Saturdays. LSU head coach Les Miles recently sat for an interview with ESPN in which he talks about the best option for deciding the national champion, dealing with losing the BCS Championship to Alabama, and expectations facing new quarterback Zach Mettenberger. Among the biggest changes we’ll see this year: LSU will be throwing the ball more and opening up the field. I hate to beat a dead horse (not really, actually, I do enjoy beating it), but I wish he would have tried that in the National Championship game last January!
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Correction: Regnerus Not Being “Investigated”…or is he?
Last week, I noted a story in The Austin American-Statesman about Mark Regnerus, a University of Texas professor who has come under fire for research he has done on children of gay parents. The American-Statesman article is titled, “UT investigates professor’s study on children with gay parents,” and it reports the following: Allegations of scientific misconduct have prompted the University of Texas to investigate a professor’s study that found adults with gay parents reported significantly different life experiences than the children of married, heterosexual biological parents. The University of Texas has since disputed this account, and The Austin American-Statesman has now issued a correction to the story, calling UT’s action…
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Evangelicals and Catholics Together…in a Lawsuit
I think this is what Francis Schaeffer meant by co-belligerence, and the stakes have never been higher. In today’s Wall Street Journal the presidents of Wheaton College and the Catholic University of America penned an Op-Ed together announcing this: The trustees of Wheaton College joined The Catholic University of America in filing a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services. They did so because the HHS mandate requiring the college to provide and subsidize insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs violates the conscience of the school and its members, and denies their First Amendment freedom of religion…
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Doug Wilson’s Book “Fidelity”
Okay, this will probably be my final word on the Wilson-vs.-Held-Evans kerfuffle. If you want to get the full context of Wilson and Wilson’s remarks, you’ll have to read Douglas Wilson’s book, Fidelity: What It Means To Be a One-Woman Man. The book is available, of course, on Amazon.com. But the full text is also available instantly at Google Books. I am posting the full text below.
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Matthew Lee Anderson on the Dust-Up
Matt Anderson has some good thoughts on the dust-up between Rachel Held Evans and the Wilsons. He argues that the larger point Jared Wilson was making about 50 Shades of Grey has been lost in arguments about authorial intent and trigger words. He writes: What strikes me as tragic in all of this is, well, that Jared’s worthy intention to object to a cultural trend that is doubtlessly present in our churches has been entirely and completely superceded. There’s an important lesson here for communicators, as when the jot and tittle gets away from us then it’s the substance of our point that loses. For what it’s worth, I don’t…
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Slanted Reporting on the Boy Scouts in NY Times
Now here is a curious way of reporting. The headline in The New York Times reads this way, “Boy Scouts to Continue Excluding Gay People.” What’s so strange about this headline? Well, for starters, it casts the Boy Scouts in a negative light, as if they’ve taken some proactive step to stick it to gay people. But that is not at all what’s happened here. The story is simply about the fact that the Boy Scouts have not changed their policy on membership vis a vis homosexuals. The policy is now what it has always been. It hasn’t changed.
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Hosoi: From Christ Air to Christ Heir
When I was a kid, I idolized Christian Hosoi. I rode his skateboards. I followed his professional career. I thought he was the best thing going as far as skating was concerned—even better than Tony Hawk.
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Pete Enns Takes on John Piper over Scripture
Pete Enns critiques John Piper’s recent remarks about the Jewish conquest of Canaan in the Old Testament. Piper argues that God’s judgments are just and shouldn’t be questioned. Enns objects and argues that the biblical accounts are historically inaccurate and at odds with Jesus’ ethic in the New Testament. In other words, Enns response presumes that the Bible has mistakes in it. Enns questions whether or not the conquest even happened. He writes: