ESPN sports critic Skip Bayless interviews Tim Tebow on the public expression of his faith–and if he sees any downsides because of it.
Even if you’re not a football fan, this is a pretty good interview.
Not least because the caustic Bayless offers a claim to being a Christian. It surprised The Burner.
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This post by Morf Monford is reposted totally without permission from Red Letter Christians. But The Burner appreciated it, so here it is. –TB
And then there are those who rouse our passions about a “War on Christmas”.
I found this tedious last year, and the year before, and [...]
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The Burner’s grandmother used to say, “You don’t know what you don’t know–until you know you don’t know it.”
But the people participating in the Occupy protests are doing us an invaluable service: They are helping to tell us what we don’t know.
Today, participants in the Occupy movement blocked [...]
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This is the Icon Bronco, an amazing restoration/redesign of the 1966-77 Ford Bronco. The Bronco was not necessarily a sophisticated choice when new, and does not appear to be one now. It’s boxy, it looks old and even the president of Icon found the untouched original to be unpleasant [...]
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Yesterday, TB referenced this article in USA Today attributing the criticism of Tim Tebow solely to his outspoken Christian faith and not to his sub-par stats.
Today, Colin Cowherd, mentioned in the article as one of Tebow’s faith-based critics, responded on his show.
People are confusing reasonable criticism with hatred. Not on [...]
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Over the weekend, two things irritated The Burner.
The first was a Facebook post from a friend decrying his perception of the liberal media’s constant derision of Christians. Further, he specifically complained that no other religious groups receive such egregious treatment (he specifically and without irony mentioned Muslims).
The second was a more...
The quote below from Penn State sociology professor Sam Richards (posted last week in “Guess the Subject of this Quote“) prompted this response from Burner reader Matthew Pittman. –TB
“You have to live in the middle of this contradiction… You have to live in this zone where both [situations] [...]
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