The Schooley Files

On my last post , I made the statement, "We must face facts. We will never impose the Kingdom of God on this world by force, and if it ...

T here was only one Messiah, and He will never be elected to the White House. At the time He came, there were certain social problems going ...

David Fitch writes an interesting piece called Confessions of a Missional Pastor . I appreciate his honesty in describing how difficult it i...

T he primacy of Iowa and New Hampshire in the US Presidential election process has got to come to an end. The way the media report the elect...

Thought I'd share a few stats about this blog, give some thanks to those who threw traffic my way, and let you know which pages you'...

Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more.... Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them l...

I am honored for this to be the result of this particular quiz. Einstein was my hero during my young life. What Famous Leader Are You? pers...

`Why wasn't he natural in his lifetime? If he had been, he'd have had somebody to look after him when he was struck with Death, inst...

`Is there a peculiar flavour in what you sprinkle from your torch?' asked Scrooge. `There is. My own.' `Would it apply to any ki...

"I release you. With a full heart, for the love of him you once were." --Belle, to her erstwhile fiance Ebenezer Scrooge T ...

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. I 've read Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol many times since I was young, I recently ha...

I sn't that a strange question? "What do you want for Christmas?" Not, "What are you giving someone else for Christmas?...

It seems to me that the basic Christian mindset is, or ought to be, gratitude. What are we Christians, anyway? What defines us? Isn't it...

Ben Witherington's Voter's Guide for Thinking Evangelicals is a worthwhile read. A few salient points (these are mine, although the...

J ulie has another terrific post , this time about expectations of singles for marriage, especially among Christian singles. Well worth che...

J ulie wrote a very thought-provoking post, entitled Wear the purple belt . I'm tempted to summarize it, but that would just make prosai...

Pat Robertson endorses Giuliani. And the corruption of the "religious right" is complete. Republican politicians don't even ha...

Joe Carter writes a fine article taking a stand against torture , including the kind known as waterboarding . He asks, rhetorically, "H...

It's a little late to be talking about Hallo Reformation Day , but Michael Spencer's post is really more about how we should view ...