Stream Splashes: The Week in Review
Every week, The Stream rounds up some highlights from the recent news. We call these our “splashes”: everything from insightful commentary on the week’s big events to small inspiring stories you may have missed.
People don’t usually embrace Caribbean animistic Santeria when abandoning Christianity. They instead become animal “rights” supporters and talk about being nice to the planet. Nor do ex-Christians typically replace bathtub statues of Mary with household shrines to the Hindu god Ganesha.
It’s not impossible for an ex-Christian to convert to voodooism or Hinduism or real Buddhism or any of a hundred other religions. Most don’t, though. When people fall out of Christianity, they usually fall into practices that resemble Christianity but which are devoid of all transcendence.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Unless I drew it. In that case it’s worth a lot less. In the course of routine educational testing as a child (“What is wrong with this strange boy? Is he dangerous?”) I learned that my graphic skills fell in the range of “developmentally disabled.”
So instead I draw words with pictures. But today I’d like to do a little of both. Let me string together for you a series of pictures and videos that convey, better than words can, the choice we all face in November.
“I vowed that in the game of life I would never let an opportunity pass me by that I wasn’t prepared for,” said award-winning sportscaster James Brown. Pursuing excellence in work in order to glorify God will also satisfy man, and that’s the reason for his success in the secular work force, he told Randy Robison and Sheila Walsh of LIFE Today.
Brown is also a youth minister at his church in Washington, D.C. When asked about how he shares his faith differently with the two settings, he said God provides appropriate opportunities. “Most people want to see a good sermon rather than hear a good sermon,” he said.
Wednesday I read a heartbreaking essay in The Atlantic. “Three Children, Two Abortions” is heartbreaking because of the author’s attachment to abortion and callousness toward unborn life. My mind churned with arguments to refute her ridiculous statements and assumptions about life, parenthood and what rights we have as human beings. But at some point, the arguments stop making a difference.Many pro-choice people are too entrenched in their preferences to notice the dark irony of their words. They’re too attached to their arguments to notice their lack of logic. Arguing won’t get us very far. As Christian pro-lifers, what should we do?
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