Unless you recently dropped your smart phone into a toilet and took off to live in a cave (in which case–how are you reading this blog post?!), you’ve probably heard by now that Planned Parenthood just had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. The viral sting video featuring a top PP doctor sipping wine […] Read more…
Why I Believe
My daughter’s tiny body shone slick with my blood as my doctor pulled her from my body. A small, sickly cry rang through the room, the noise like the plaintive wailing of an injured cat. I watched the nurse rinse away the blood with a mixture of wonder and fear coursing through me. I would […] Read more…
Review: The End of Apologetics
Guest-post and book review of Myron Bradley Penner’s The End of Apologetics: Christian Witness in a Post-Modern Context at Rational Faiths blog. Read more…
Should you tithe on child support?
You are a single Christian parent and you have a goal of giving a fixed percentage of your income to God. [1] You are also either paying or receiving child support. When you calculate how much you intend to tithe, do you include child support payments received as part of your income? Or, if you […] Read more…
Review: The Simple Living Handbook by Lorilee Lippincott
The Simple Living Handbook: Discover the Joy of a De-Cluttered Life by Lorilee Lippincott [April 2013] This was a book that I enjoyed for the first third or so, and was surprised to find my opinion of it dropping off rapidly after that. So first, allow me to lay out what I liked about the […] Read more…
Review — Highly Recommended Film: Higher Ground
Higher Ground directed by Vera Farmiga [August 2011] Higher Ground is about a woman named Corinne Briggs, played by Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, The Departed) as an adult and Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story) as a teenager. Corinne is raised in a Christian-in-name-only household where she occasionally attends a mainline Protestant church. As a young […] Read more…
Life Begins at Blood
I wrote a paper on this for an ethics class at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School last year. I offer this as a pro-life alternative to the “life begins at conception” position. My paper was finished in a hurry at the last minute, so I over-relied on online sources, and it wouldn’t surprise me to find […] Read more…
