Miami Dolphins sign veteran quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick

The Miami Dolphins didn’t look far to replace Ryan Tannehill as the team’s starting quarterback. In fact, the team didn’t even have to leave the state. According to a league source, Ryan Fitzpatrick, a 14-year veteran who spent the past two seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, signed a contract on Sunday with Miami, making the Dolphins the third AFC East team the former Harvard standout will play for. Terms of the contract were not immediately available. Fitzpatrick replaces... Read More

The Suffering Servant Only Makes Sense in the Context of the Trinity

The historical Christian doctrine helps us to see the goodness of God in Good Friday. Good Friday sermons aren’t always easy to sit through. They’re even tougher to preach. Never have I been more moved or more likely to squirm in my seat in church than on Good Friday. Perhaps that’s because they invite us to sit in the midnight passages of Scripture, caught up with suffering, death, and the purposes of God. For many of us, it is a trial to read Good Friday texts and still... Read More

Transhumanism and the Cult of ‘Better, Faster, Stronger’

Why the church should resist technologies that aim to liberate us from ordinary, embodied life. Amid the pop-culture detritus of my childhood, one unforgettable fragment is the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man. For the children of the 1970s, Steve Austin (played by Lee Majors) was our first cyborg, fitted with a “bionic” eye and limbs after a nearly fatal accident. Every episode began by retelling his origin story, as a voiceover intoned: “We can rebuild him. We have... Read More

Theology of the Future

Bible scholars, theologians, and philosophers used to work together. N.T. Wright believes they need to do so again. Stop thinking like children.” Paul’s admonition to the Corinthians is even more urgent for us today. Though they should be like little children when it came to evil, he insisted they should be grown-ups when it came to thinking. To that end, Paul constantly tried to teach people not only what to think but how to think. This remains vital. The various disciplines... Read More

Miami Gardens boy, 6, dead after he finds loaded gun, shoots himself

A 6-year-old boy died Saturday morning after finding a loaded gun and shooting himself in the head inside a Miami Gardens home, police confirmed. Miami Gardens Public Information Officer Carolyn Frazier, who responded to the scene, said officers received a 911 call about 9 a.m. Saturday regarding a shooting in the 2100 block of NW 27th Court. Frazier said a boy sustained a serious gunshot injury while in the supervision of two caretakers. The boy, whose name has not been released and age... Read More

He owes over 2,100 fraud victims $19.7 million. And feds think he’s trying to hide money

A South Florida lawyer helped pull off a $19.7 million fraud — a pump-and-dump stock scheme involving shell companies. Now, federal prosecutors thinks James Schneider of Hillsboro Beach is trying … Click to Continue » ... Read More