Category Archives: Families

Animal Tales

I don’t like Veggie Tales; they are a memorable but moralistic retelling of Bible stories that many Christians think are good for children.  Vegetables are but Veggie Tales aren’t.  The behavior they teach isn’t distinctively Christian.  Muslims, Jews, and Mormons … Continue reading

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Fancy Let Herself Down

Bobbie Gentry first recorded the song in 1969; most know the Reba McEntire remake of 1990, but no matter who sings it Fancy says the same schizophrenic thing. A woman can give up her body and still be true to … Continue reading

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The Myth of Sexual Moral Neutrality

There it is on a list of 60 or so clubs at my daughters’ high school.  Amid the Chess Club, Karate Club, Astronomy Club, Powerlifting Club, and Robot Club is the Gay and Straight Alliance Club. With straight faces we … Continue reading

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Exhorting to Frustration

I want to do auto mechanics.  I yearn to be able to pop the hood and know what I’m looking at. I want to get under the car on a mechanic’s creeper and say, “Hand me that ¾ inch wrench,” and … Continue reading

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Ugly Betty

Betty isn’t ugly but we are making her that way.  In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when Father Christmas is handing out gifts he gives to Susan a bow and a quiver full of arrows and a bow … Continue reading

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“Hopelessness”

There is a phenomenon airline pilots experience after flying all night.  They fly through the blackness awake, alert, and able, but when the sun pops over their horizon they instantly become sleepy.  This is counterintuitive but not contrary to experience.

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“Eve of Destruction”

If you’re listening to the financiers, bankers, and politicians, we’re teetering on the brink.  They’re saying what Barry McGuire sang in his inimitable voice: it’s the “Eve of Destruction.”  Barry wanted everyone twisted in knots over war, racism, and nuclear … Continue reading

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Female Elders

You’ll recall that the 2004 Convention said that woman can be elders as long as it doesn’t involve them in the function or accountability of the pastoral office. As of 31 July 2008 three of the nine elders at Trinity, … Continue reading

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Father Knows Best?

   It starts with fat, old Eli.  He is a lousy father.  Scripture records that Eli honored his sons above the Lord.  He would not properly discipline them for despising the offering of the Lord and for sleeping with the … Continue reading

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The Lioness’s Share

G.K. Chesterton said that “every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things” (The New Jerusalem, 211.) 

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