This is the last post in my (very) long series focusing on The Heresy of Joel Osteen. Look for other posts on Joel by searching for his name in the search bar to your right. When I was in the eleventh grade I decided to study Latin. I don’t remember what it was that compelled me to study the language, but I suspect it had something to do with the small class size. Where most classes in my high school had twenty five or thirty students, Latin usually had only seven or eight. And so it was that for a year I studied Latin. The teacher, Dr. Helder, quickly became my favorite teacher and grade el...

Well, say “au revoir” to the Cash for Clunkers. As of Monday the program is history. Unfortunately for Barack Obama and the Democrats, it has left a pretty bad taste in people’s mouths. This coincides with a debate over government running our healthcare system. Maybe the administration should have thought about the implications of this program being horribly run considering its push to run healthcare. Here are just a few of the problems with the cash for clunkers: Congress, relying on auto industry forecasts that the program wouldn’t have a major effect on moribund s...

Part of me wants to dance and see this as a joyful occasion. The other part, the one that has won out, sees this as a mockery of the Godly (at least its supposed to be) union between one man and one woman. The actual lyrics of the song aside, these kind of antics are more suited for the reception and not the ceremony which is supposed to be a solemn and serious expression of their commitment to God to honor one another and Him with their marriage. P.S. Don’t forget that there was a woman leading the ceremony and, in an interview on a television morning show, the bride said that she was ...

Just war theory deals with the justification of how and why wars are fought. The justification can be either theoretical or historical. The theoretical aspect is concerned with ethically justifying war and the forms that warfare may or may not take. The historical aspect, or the “just war tradition,” deals with the historical body of rules or agreements that have applied in various wars across the ages. For instance, international agreements such as the Geneva and Hague conventions are historical rules aimed at limiting certain kinds of warfare which lawyers may refer to in prosecuting tra...

Watch T.D. “Christianity Is Big Business” Jakes and Joel “This is my Bible and I will never refer to it again” Osteen on the commercialization of their businesses ministries. ...