Reading Time: 3 minutes Here’s the selfish side of praise and worship: tell God how fabulous he is, and you get gifts in return.
Donald Trump
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Christian defense of praise and worship: fearing, fairness, and fighting back
Reading Time: 4 minutes We need to worship God because we need to fear him, because it’s only fair, and because we’re under attack by dark forces. Apparently.
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Christian defense of praise and worship: God’s greatness and our debasement
Reading Time: 4 minutes What psychological itch does worship scratch? Does it actually feel good to put ourselves into an inferior role?
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Christian defense of praise and worship: God needs it, and the Bible commands it
Reading Time: 3 minutes Worship isn’t for *God’s* benefit. On the other hand, maybe it is. And we worship because the Bible tells us to.
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Christian defense of praise and worship: finding analogies in human relationships
Reading Time: 4 minutes We understand how relationships work. We have varied relationships with lots of people. But is a God relationship with praise and worship like any healthy human relationship?
Posted inSatire
Golfing with an ex-President
Reading Time: < 1 minute First shot teed up for a par five, sliced. Second shot across the fairway out of bounds, hooked. Third shot dribbled close by, topped. Fourth shot into water, sliced. Fifth shot into sand, hooked. Sixth shot into rough. Seventh shot off a pine tree. Eighth shot into sand. Ninth shot onto green. Tenth shot putts […]
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God as Donald Trump: Trying to make sense of praise and worship
Reading Time: 3 minutes Praise and worship is the last thing that you’d think an all-wise god would want (unless it’s a god in the mold of Donald Trump).
Posted inPolitics
‘Top evangelicals’ are never going to back away from Donald Trump
Reading Time: 4 minutes Are (white) evangelicals backing away from Donald Trump? You might think that if you read this headline at Semafor: The article is mostly a short list of prominent white evangelicals who appear to be done with Trump. They’re fed up with his fixation on the 2020 elections and they’re disturbed by his more recent meetings […]
Posted inHuman Story
Inflation isn’t what’s making Americans unhappy
Reading Time: 4 minutes “It’s the economy, stupid.” It was a memorable 1992 quip that quickly went viral—and it’s still popular today—after being uttered by then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton’s political guru, James Carville, the “ragin’ Cajun.” Turns out, that theory may not necessarily be quite right, though. Carville was saying that the state of the economy, more than any […]
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‘Free speech’ must be reformed before it destroys US democracy
Reading Time: 7 minutes The midterm elections are over. But, in a sense, it doesn’t matter—because the virulent, now-years-long epidemic afflicting American politics remains: cynical Republican mendacity, which is to say, purposeful lying and duplicity—spearheaded by former president Donald Trump. And zero accountability so far for the merchants of this corrosive assault on the nation. Make no mistake, this […]