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Short hair and groomed beard became a thing in the late 2000s or early 2010s thanks to hipster culture. I'd like to think a bunch of fundy preechers (like Spamderson) saw a bunch of 20somethings sporting that style and grudgingly conceded that at least their hair wasn't long, so they weren't...

"What are we doing wrong, do you think, Pastor?" We had a thread some years ago where a rule like that at PCC came up. Basically, my take on it was that you were allowed to have a beard, as long as you didn't grow it on campus when the term was in session. When I see that foolishness, I have...

I assume that Reformed people other than Reformed Baptists (e.g. Christian Reformed, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, etc.; those in the Calvinist/Geneva tradition) follow John Calvin on the issue. He taught that there is no danger to the child of Christians if baptism is withheld; they are...

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Hughes has been an NHL player since 2019 (and an OHL player for two years before that). Surprising he didn't lose those teeth earlier.

Which is why I went with "sacrament, properly defined." Calvin believed in two sacraments, baptism and the Lord's supper--the same things we would call "ordinances." would agree with Augustine that a sacrament was an outward sign. It was not (as Catholics and other sacramentalists would say) the...

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Subllibrm: I was being sarcastic. Ekklesian: No you weren't. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Divine retribution for people dissing Wayne Gretzky for not participating in the Two Minutes' Hate against Trump.

He was a family man and a good neighbour and never did no harm to nobody and was an aspiring rapper and just turning his life around and was going to finish high school and go to college and was a mom of three and

Yeah, that was another surprise for me. Saw TKAM for the first time about two years ago. (And even though I mentioned it in the tweet, I'd completely forgotten Duvall was in Bullitt. I own the movie, too...)

More faithful to Charles Portis's novel, too. I enjoyed John Wayne's movie, but The Dude was a better fit for the Coen brothers, and you could almost believe the dialogue in the novel was made for the Coens, too. (Funny how for a duo arguably best known for dark comedies about crime, their two...

True Grit for me was Robert Duvall's most surprising appearance. It took me about three viewings before I recognized him. Come to think of it, I didn't recognize Barry Pepper as Ned Pepper either. Clever.

The phrase "We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone" is commonly attributed to Luther--and it's certainly consistent with his theology. And yet the person who said that, more or less verbatim, was actually Calvin, in response to the Council of Trent. I wish the...

I read Heart of Darkness in high school and hated it. I thought perhaps my opinion might have changed so I read it again in my 30s. Nope. Still hated it. A good example of a movie being better than the book, even allowing for the looseness of the adaptation. Not Conrad's fault, though. I've...

In the novel MASH, Frank Burns is a fairly one-dimensional character: a religious zealot, but an incompetent surgeon and a hypocrite who blames others for his own failures. When Robert Altman made the movie MASH, he conflated the Burns character with some of the other surgeons. So the character...

And now it's correct. Never mind.

Test test test Interesting. I noticed that one of my posts looked older than I remembered by the timestamp. I thought it was only a couple of minutes old, 5 at the outside. Turns out there's something funny going on with the systtem clock. This post, by the timestamp, was already 25 minutes...

OSAS is true because monergism is true. The God who worked to save you, also works to keep you. Conversely, to say you can lose your salvation, therefore, is actually saying God might lose you. Semi-Pelagian churches that nonetheless hold to eternal security get the conclusion right but...

Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, to be unto the party baptized, a sign of his fellowship with him, in his death and resurrection; of his being engrafted into him; of remission of sins; and of giving up into God, through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in...