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I apologize for the recent lack of regularly scheduled Left Behind Fridays here lately. (And, for that matter, the lack of much of anything else.) We'll never get through the seven-year Great Tribulation at this rate, and the stalled progress on our weekly Bruce Barnes Death Countdown is ...
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From Mark Noll's The Civil War as Theological Crisis : American national culture had been built in substantial part by voluntary and democratic appropriation of Scripture. Yet if by following such an approach to the Bible there resulted an unbridgeable chasm of opinion about what Scripture ...
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slacktivist.typepad.com - 7 days ago
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Listening to an interview with Elinor Ostrom on
NPR's Planet Money podcast, I was delighted to learn
that one can, in a way, be awarded a Nobel Prize for theology. Technically, Ostrom was awarded the prize in economics "for her analysis of economic ...
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Crooks and Liars
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On the one hand, you've got your religious evangelicals. They're born-again Christians who go to church twice every Sunday, read their daily devotions, try not to say "geez" because that's almost just as bad as swearing, feel guilty that they haven't done more to witness to you because they ...
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Tribulation Force, pp. 108-113 Buck Williams is hogging the spotlight. So far in Tribulation Force, the Buck pages are outnumbering the Rayford pages by more than 2-to-1. And even when we do check in briefly with Buck's co-star here it's mainly in order to eavesdrop on Chloe's side of Buck's ...
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I don't remember last night but they took my picture " Easy Living ," Billie Holiday "Easy to Ignore," Sixpence None the Richer " Easy to Remember ," Billie Holiday " Eat for Two ," 10,000 Maniacs "Echo Wars," Peter Case "Eclipse," Steve Hindalong "Ed Again," Swirling Eddies "Ed Takes a ...
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The Associated Press reports : SAN FRANCISCO β Stunned and angry, national left-handed leaders Wednesday blamed scare-mongering ads β and President Barack Obama's lack of engagement β for a bitter election setback in Maine that could alter the dynamics for both sides in the southpaw-franchise ...
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I made this recently, but I'm still not quite sure what to make of it. Playing off of Jesus' charge to his disciples to "be wise as serpents and innocent as doves" we can construct the following grid of wisdom and innocence, charting four possible outcomes when you encounter someone purporting ...
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slacktivist.typepad.com - 19 days ago
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Tribulation Force, pp. 108-109 Buck Williams is sitting
just outside of the Antichrist's office. He imagines he
can feel the supernatural evil emanating from the next room. He desperately prays for divine protection, for deliverance, because he ...
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TF: Saving Hattie Durham
