by Bret Capranica | Apr 27, 2006 | Culture, Humor
Calif. Woman Spanked at Work Sues for $1.2M – Yahoo! News I went to public school in the days when teachers could whip the snot out of you for poor behavior. And let me tell you. After elementary school, I had little snot left in me. I’m all for going back to “swats,” as we called them, at school. But at work? Here’s the money quote from this article about a woman being spanked in front of her co-workers in a ploy to build sales: “No reasonable middle-aged woman would want to be put up there before a group of young men, turned around to show her buttocks, get spanked and called abusive names, and told it was to increase sales and motivate employees,” her lawyer, Nicholas “Butch” Wagner, said in his closing argument. The company says the spankings were voluntary and this woman just wants money. Probably. But getting spanked at work? I do wonder how the company’s sales figures have turned...
by Bret Capranica | Apr 27, 2006 | Blogging, Culture
Blogs and the Survival of Civilization Dr. Mohler discusses the fact that the modern blog craze has produced a group of people who have no inhibitions about how they speak about other people and issues. The blogosphere is the new wild, wild west. I knew that was why I was attracted to...
by Bret Capranica | Apr 26, 2006 | Blogging, Ecclesiology
The T4G conference begins today. It was the intention of our pastoral staff to be at this conference, but circumstances did not allow us to attend. So, I will be checking out the multitude of individuals blogging on the conference: Tim Challies, official T4G blogger. Jason Robertson – who is there and should be blogging, it would be sin for him not to Pastor Steve Weaver Marc Heinrich Paul Lamey Paleoevangelical Nick Reddin & Chris Hinton . . . Just to name a few. Give us good posts guys. We will be...
by Bret Capranica | Apr 25, 2006 | Culture
Bush picks Fox’s Snow as press secretary – Yahoo! News This will sure be interesting – a former speech writer turned ultra conservative talk show host, now the most visible face of the U.S. Presidency outside the President...
by Bret Capranica | Apr 25, 2006 | Ecclesiology, General Theology
Faith & Practice: Cooperation with Conservative Charismatics? Nathan Busenitz provides a good review of how a cessationist like John MacArthur can comfortably join up with a charismatic like C. J. Mahaney. This is helpful...