Isn’t it great just how original we all are? How on Earth did God make us so unique, so fascinating, so specifically ourselves? Just think of all the gifts and interests God has given us so that we might reach others who are similar, yet even more different still. These differences are […]
The ways people interpret the Bible cause unneeded suffering and avoidable stupidities. I’ve often said that if I believed everything I’ve heard from preachers, I’d be a raving lunatic. Just read the Bible for its plain sense, some people say. Yet a 21st-century view of a passage can be very different from […]
Watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the latest Harry Potter movie just out, made me think about awkward teenage interaction between the sexes. As Potter devotees know, each book (and movie) is another sequential year in the life of Hogwarts, and in particular the lives of friends Harry, Ron, and Hermione. […]
Not as many people know Frank Schaeffer as knew his father, Francis, the early Christian Right apologist, but he’s apparently well enough known in evangelical circles to get hate mail from them. I’ve been quite taken with two of his novels, Portofino, and Zermatt. They, along with Saving Grandma, are the ongoing saga […]
I recommend “Commander in Chief” on ABC TV Tuesday nights. Mackenzie Allen, the USA vice president, played by Geena Davis, becomes the first woman president of the United States by being sworn in upon the death of the president, against the president’s wishes and the leaders of his party. They’d prefer someone “more […]