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For many years, John MacArthur has told a story about the night Martin Luther King, Jr. died. Although the details vary slightly with the telling, the summary is that he, John Perkins and some other civil rights leaders traveled from Jackson, MS to Memphis, TN the night MLK was murdered.…
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Liberty University is in the news a lot lately but not for great reasons. Yesterday, I called attention to a tweet from LU president Jerry Falwell, Jr. which disparaged fellow Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore. Moore had lamented the treatment of migrant children at the U.S. southern border. Falwell, Jr.…
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I can’t remember anything quite like this. Political loyalties have reduced self-styled Christian leaders to public wars. Witness Jerry Falwell, Jr.’s tweet today to Russell Moore. The arrogance here is obvious. His reaction isn’t relevant to Moore’s comment. Moore didn’t even mention Trump but Moore’s concern about the treatment of…
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What if the children held in the facilities described in the ABC News report below belonged to you? Would you express your outrage? What would you do? From the report on the ABC News website: After assessing 39 children under the age of 18, she described conditions for unaccompanied minors…
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This post is some inside baseball for those who remember the end of Mars Hill Church. If you know nothing of that story, you might want to do some catching up. So here is a little background for the post. Mars Hill Church was co-founded by Mark Driscoll. Driscoll was…
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The Gospel Coalition often posts theoretical or theological articles. However, yesterday Joe Carter posted a helpful and practical piece on vaccines. In case readers need a Christian resource for their Christian anti-vax friends, I post a link to it and a few related comments. The current resurgence of cases has…
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While using a defamation lawsuit to attack critics didn’t work well for Harvest Bible Chapel, it may have a different result in India for K.P. Yohannan and Believers Eastern Church. According to this The Hindu article, The Believers Eastern Church is behind a charge of defamation which led to the…
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Note: This is a reprint from last year with current amendments. Happy day to celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S. Juneteenth is a holiday in 40 states. Here is a tweet from Jamar Tisby which links to an article which makes a case for Juneteenth as a national…
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(UPDATE – 6/11/19) – See below the post for an update. For Dinesh D’Souza watchers, this headline is as shocking as proclaiming that water is wet. I post this incident because it is a clear and convincing demonstration that D’Souza shows zero interest in academic integrity. Let me lay out…
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The name calling has gotten hot and heavy in the recent Ahmari v. French dust up but I haven’t seen any calls for anyone’s death. For that, you need to go to the inappropriately titled Center for American Greatness. In a recent column about Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on…
