by Dan Phillips ...these are pretty amazing: Now, I think the first is clearly faked, and one or two others are iffy. But the rest? If they're fake, they're fooling me. Even if they're all fake, we know that athletes pour incredible focus and discipline into what they do. Their whole life is molded ...

This morning during the 8:15 am morning service at First Baptist Church in Maryville, Illinois, a 27-year-old man walked down the aisle, exchanged a few words with pastor Fred Winters, pulled out a gun, and shot the pastor to death. Mark Jones, another pastor at the church, said that he did not reco...

My oh my, do I have bounteous buckets of eclectic goodness for you today! Let's launch: Obama: Bush handled Iraq war correctly. Okay, you note no quotation-marks. 0-bama didn't say that in so many words. That would take honesty and humility. But that's the upshot. I have a new goal. It's inspired by...

by Dan Phillips Among the exhortations the apostle fires off to Timothy in a staccato burst is this: "U ntil I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching" (1 Timothy 4:13). If the last two facets describe preaching (and, I think, they do), the first describ...

This week's battered pickup has returned from the field. Here's what it brings us (I'm sneaking in unmarked UPDATES as I find them, so keep checking back) : Obamolaters scoff and sneer when we call them, well, Obamolaters. But according new Harris interactive poll asked 2,634 Americans who they admi...

Pat Robertson can't seem to help himself. (Does he even try? ) I am far from a Limbaugh apologist. But it seems to me reasonable that, if you're going to say something that hundreds of thousands of people will hear, and that many will quote and cite and use... you ought to have some vague idea of wh...

by Dan Phillips (Some additional reflections on this post ) Vignette one: Centuries ago, when I was a brand-new Christian, I tried to witness to a friend in high school. He listened openly enough to such as I had to say. At the end, he had to confess: "I just keep trying to convince myself that acce...

Joel Rosenberg reports that funds are being directed towards the rebuilding of Babylon . Yes, that Babylon, the actual city of Babylon. Saddam Hussein had been very invested in resurrecting Babylon to power and glory, but he's very invested in something else at the present. Nonetheless, the dream ha...

I just learned that Joni has been bedridden for the last year with chronic pain. This is a new and hard development in her last forty-one years as a quadriplegic. Reading Joni's first book back in the seventies was a moving experience. Here was a young girl who dove in for a swim, and broke her neck...

What's the net scooped up this week: Another snapshot at life (and its end) in a socialized medicine environment? And this is where Obama is heading us? A massive bureaucracy with all the efficiency of the USPO, and all the compassion of the IRS? Maybe I should add a Warning Shot Alert feature. If I...