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Tag Archive for ‘Salvation On the Small Screen’

TBN-a-thon

By Matthew Ralph I don’t own a TV so I tend to mostly only read and overhear people at work talking about “Dancing With the Stars,” “American Idol” and countless other mindless programs. This being the case, I was pretty excited when I found out that the Sarcastic Lutheran, Nadia Bolz-Weber, had an entire book about […]

Quotation: Joel Osteen and Hot Pockets

“There are times when the popularity of someone like Joel Osteen is very confusing to me. But then I realize: there are times when the popularity of Hot Pockets is also confusing to me so I choose not to dwell on it.” -Nadia Bolz-Weber, in her book “Salvation On the Small Screen? 24 Hours of […]