I ran across this article on CNN about the current religious trends of teenagers. Kenda Dean, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, has just written a book entitled, Almost Christian, where she says that teenagers have been served up a progressive, self-serving form of Christianity and it’s taking its toll. She says that this imposter [...]
But with whom was he furious forty years? Wasn’t it those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the desert? But with whom did he swear that they were not to enter into his rest? Wasn’t it the unbelieving ones? (Hebrews 2.17-18, Smythean) In Hebrews, the writer spends the first half of the book pleading with [...]
Yesterday, as the guys in the hall were asking each other just how low the stock market was going to go, I ran across this article, Finance Fatcats Live Large as Firms Crumble, about “one of the ironies of the subprime mortgage crisis.” (see also here) Apparently, just months ago some Lehman Brother executives were [...]
Dog Days of a Texas Summer I haven’t kept up with writing for a while because of work and also because of the lovely high pressure zone that has plopped itself over the Dallas-Fort Worth area all summer. As a trial lawyer (or you might say “court lawyer” because nobody goes to trial anymore), my [...]
Boos, Hisses, and Cheers