Category: Good Ideas vs. Bad Ideas

  • Bad Ideas: A Curse is Upon You!

    Bad Ideas: A Curse is Upon You!

    by Adam and Renée Benner For each of his years at Hogwarts, Harry Potter had a different Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. There was the conniving Quirrell, the haughty Gilderoy Lockhart, the sinister Barty Crouch (disguised as Mad-Eye Moody), the poisonous Delores Umbridge, even Professor Snape. But the one I always felt sorry for…

  • Good Ideas: Holy Lit, Not Holy Writ

    Good Ideas: Holy Lit, Not Holy Writ

    There might be a better way to read the Bible than as a set of useful memory and life verses.

  • Bad Ideas: Biblical Inerrancy

    Bad Ideas: Biblical Inerrancy

    Some seem to believe that if the scriptures were composed under the guidance of a perfect being, they must themselves be perfect. Yet is that really the case?

  • Bad Ideas: The Mark of the Beast

    Bad Ideas: The Mark of the Beast

    Patty vs. The Minions of the Antichrist t’s a Wednesday evening, around the time of the Gulf War. I’m in a narrow rectangular room with around fifteen other boys, members of our church’s Boy’s Brigade group (a Christian version of the Boy Scouts). A television and VCR are positioned at one end of the room…