Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
Jared Bridges I haven’t yet read Michael Crichton’s new novel about environmentalist conspirators, State Of Fear, but it’s on my wish list. The Christianity Today review of Crichton’s book by Read Mercer Schuchardt is good overall, but this line in particular struck me: Crichton deftly reminds us that today, only fiction writers can tell the truth. This … Read more
In short, I thought it was a great speech. One might say that there was a shortage of details, but where details were lacking, President Bush laid much philosophical groundwork. After all, in a 40-minute speech that covers everthing from domestic policy to the war on terror, how much detail could someone give? Bush instead … Read more
By now, you’ve all probably heard about the Iraqi terrorist kidnapping of an American G.I. Joe–type doll, photographing it, and holding “him” hostage—all in an effort to pass it off as a real American soldier (although, G.I. Joe is indeed a real American hero…). Well, now that other Jared at Exultate Juste has uncovered a … Read more
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. You can view all posts from this series here. If, in some parallel universe, I were held down kicking and screaming and demanded to sum up the work of Flannery O’Connor in a single word, the word … Read more
Michael Spencer has written a firebrand of a post exposing the clearly un-Christian teachings of Joel Osteen, pastor of the 30,000 member Lakewood Church in Houston and author of the current bestselling self-help book, Your Best Life Now. I’m not too familiar with Osteen (other than seeing his Orel Hersheiser-like face staring at me every … Read more
Time Magazine’s lists its take on who are the 25 most influential evangelicals in America. They get much of it right, but there are some glaring omissions. It’s especially surprising that intellectual luminaries such as Albert Mohler and D. A. Carson were left off the list in lieu of non-evangelicals like Richard John Neuhaus and … Read more
For moment—albeit a brief one—I wondered whether or not I was going overboard by posting several sets of photos of our newborn on this blog. After all, the youngster didn’t exactly give me permission to release his strikingly handsome mug to the world. Nevertheless, I published them without regret, hoping that he would later forgive … Read more
Sen. John Kerry’s comments on “Meet the Press” aren’t his first betrayal of Iraq’s new government by the people—his snubbing of Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi in September handily took that honor. The Senator’s continued pessimism toward a free Iraq betrays the fact that Kerry’s time as an influential in the politics of freedom has long … Read more
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. You can view all posts from this series here. If Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings really was, as Tolkein himself held, devoid of any hint of allegory; and if Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress displayed allegory to the extreme; … Read more
Heh heh heh: I’m not going to be able to post anything for the next 4 1/2 hours, so in the meantime, read this.