More than seven years ago retired optometrist Terry Sanderson collided with actress Gwyneth Paltrow in a skiing accident on the slopes of Utah’s Deer Valley Resort. Two lawsuits later, Paltrow was vindicated. A jury found in her favor and instructed Sanderson to pay her a symbolic $1 and her attorney fees. Ok. But why is it that the media assumes the general public wants to know all of the newsy snippets about entertainers and stars?…
On July 12, Amy Grant appeared on Apple Music’s Proud Radio with host Hunter Kelly. She participated as part of a conversation about the LGBTQ community’s place in Country music. She was also there, in part, to promote the 30th anniversary of the release of one of the most significant albums in Contemporary Christian Music history, her Heart in Motion. Grant’s name and her rise to popularity in the 1970s is synonymous with CCM. And…
On July 6, CNN’s Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon were defending the destruction of statues in America when Lemon offered a strange comparison between Christian devotion to Christ and America’s reverence of the Founders, “But here’s the thing,” he claimed, “Jesus Christ, if that’s who you believe in, Jesus Christ, admittedly was not perfect when he was here on this earth. So why are we deifying the Founders of this country? Many of whom owned…
Lisa Bender, the president of the Minneapolis City Council, dreams of a postmodern socialist utopia and believes that we should all aspire to a world without law enforcement. On June 8, she told CNN’s Chris Cuomo that calling the police when your home is broken into “comes from a place of privilege.” She argues that she wants a “police-free society.” Cuomo told her, “When you say you see someday being police-free that sounds aspirational, a…
Racism isn’t new. It’s as old as sin itself. And it violates two of the most basic truths in the Bible. When Jesus confronted racism, He focused on these two truths. Even Jesus grew up in a culture slimed with racism. In His day, the Jews nurtured a 700-year-old prejudice against the Samaritans. Generations before Jesus, the Samaritans were kin of the Israelites. Their kingdom split in 922 BC, and some of the Israelites went…
Remember that day in January 2018 when Hawaiians were notified to “seek immediate shelter” from an incoming ballistic missile? The event caused mass panic on the islands and alarmed friends and family members all over the world. And actor Jim Carrey was there. In a recent interview with Graham Norton, Carrey was pitching his book Memoirs and Misinformation, and he explained to Norton the odd photo on the front of the book. “There was a…
According to the website areavibes.com, the crime rate in San Francisco, CA, is “151% higher than the national average. For every 100,000 people, there are 18.86 daily crimes that occur in San Francisco. . . .In San Francisco you have a 1 in 15 chance of becoming a victim of any crime.” Yet, in August city officials decided to sanitize language referring to criminals. The Board of Supervisors is purging the city’s vocabulary of words…
Have you ever felt like you were taking the heat for someone else’s stupidity? Well, imagine that your name is “Red Hen.” On Friday, June 22, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was refused service at the Red Hen, a farm-to-table restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, by the co-owner, Stephanie Wilkinson. Wilkinson reportedly balked when she saw Sanders and refused to deliver her entrée because she serves as press secretary for Donald Trump. She asked…
What does it take to understand grace? Nancy Seaman is a small lady, friendly and good-natured, known by her neighbors in their placid Detroit neighborhood as a dedicated stay-at-home mom. And she’s a murderer. In 2004 Nancy Seaman killed her husband, Bob. And the murder was assertive. Brutal. Seaman hit her husband with a hatchet and stabbed him with a knife more than twenty times in their suburban garage. Seaman readily admits to the grisly…
First Bill Hybels. Then Frank Page. While it is not uncommon these days for new names to be added to the roll-call of leaders who are either accused of moral misconduct or have admitted to it, this week the evangelical Christian community was rattled when two respected leaders were swept into the company of the accused. March 22 Christianity Today published the story that Bill Hybels, founding pastor of the innovative megachurch Willow Creek Community…