You hold an image, it provides a common thread

You hold an image, it provides a common thread April 29, 2014

There’s something about Mary: “There’s no actual need for Christians to pick a single passage. But if pressed, I’ll take the Magnificat.”

• Jim Naughton and the Rev. Susan Russell have two questions for American Christians who defend Uganda’s laws criminalizing being gay:

1. Do you also support jailing LGBT people in the United States?

2. And if not, why do you support dealing more harshly with gay Africans than gay Americans?

Seems like those two questions deserve an answer.

• Barcelona star Dani Alves reminds us what classy looks like (via). Graceful, but the kind of grace that, as St. Paul said, heaps burning coals on their heads even while being gracious.

• Another reason to hate the little pests: “Mosquitoes kill more humans than any other animal, including humans.” Think what we could accomplish if we dedicated half the resources to a global war on malaria that we’ve spent on our “global war on terror.”

• Yes, I’m a bit obsessed with the World’s Worst Books and with the pernicious pseudo-apocalyptic heresy that shapes them. And that’s partly because that bogus theology also shapes American culture and politics and is a big reason why we can’t have nice things: “Literally, people thought there would be chips embedded in their bodies if they signed up for Obamacare.”

Because, you know, access to affordable private health insurance despite pre-existing medical conditions is exactly the sort of thing Nicolae Carpathia will bring us with his one-world Antichrist government.

Jessica Bluemke shares the disturbing news of an upcoming TV show, called Nazareth, that “follows the formative years of Jesus of Nazareth.” It will apparently be set in first-century Palestine, so this won’t be anything like the show I was hoping for when I wrote about “Sending Jesus to high school.” Here’s hoping, though, that it’s a bit more true to its subject than the crude, horrifying second-century fantasy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas.

• What do these songs have in common? “Wichita Lineman,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Scarborough Fair,” “The Way We Were,” “I’m a Believer,” “Feelin’ Alright,” “These Boots Were Made for Walkin’,” “Mission Impossible Theme,” “River Deep — Mountain High.”

The answer is Carol Kaye.


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