The Writer and the Christian

Wallis’s first official chapter is called “Revival Time,” and it repeats most of what was covered in the introduction, though in somewhat more detail. One of the things I have noticed about Wallis is that he brings up a topic like “social justice,” says that it is important and he’ll get into the details […]

We begin our look at Wallis’ book proper in the introduction, which is essentially the ideological equivalent of a drive-by. A lot of faces go by, there is a lot of noise, and when it’s over we wonder what exactly the point of the exercise was.
He opens the introduction like he does in […]

Nobody seems to be interested in dealing with the works of Jim Wallis, so I suppose it falls to me. Of course, part of the problem might be that almost no evangelicals have heard of Jim Wallis. You can try it at home. Next time you’re at church, ask anybody if they’ve heard of him. […]

Brian Godawa is a Christian writer/director working in Hollywood. He wrote the award-winning independent film To End All Wars, which starred Robert Carlyle and Kieffer Sutherland, and adapted Frank Peretti’s The Visitation for the big screen. He’s directed documentaries on American history for PBS and the History Channel. Recently he directed a short horror film […]

Modern liberalism is essentially secularism in thinly veiled religious garb, and its salvation is a distinctly secular, though largely pagan, program. Alternateively, in much of Africa and Latin America salvation is depicted in terms of a violent socialist revolution (”liberation theology”) designed to overturn the imperialism and capitalism (real or imagined) of society. Salvation is […]

A good friend of mine who happens to be an atheist has started a series of notes on Facebook entitled “My Atheism”. He just posted this picture with one of his notes, and I thought it deserved a counterpart.

So I made one myself in response (it’s pretty gruesome, but that’s the point):

This, of course, is […]

Yes. I haven’t been posting with much frequency lately. I know. We’re all ashamed of it. But hopefully that will change.
Meanwhile, in my absence, I’ve done a few fun things that make for fun edu-muh-cation. In particular, John Granger, better known as the Hogwarts professor - one of the leading literary authorities on Harry Potter […]