Cross & Flag: The Uneasy Burden of Patriotic Christianity

The Old Rugged Cross. T-shirt available from the weird-ass folks at EmpoweredFromAbove.com, who, whatever their silkscreening gifts, don’t know a Jewish messiah when they see one.It’s not the Christian belief that the cross is something to embrace from the Roman end of the hammer. It’s to be embraced from the Jewish end of the nail.

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Fourth of July: Eternal Virtue or Historical Speed-Bump?

Kurt Willems on the Fourth of July.  I think that Christians in America have to take this kind of critique seriously.