Saturday Link Love: #MeToo, the Biblical Canon, HUD, and Etsy

Saturday Link Love is a feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

David and Bathsheba Is a #MeToo Story; Woman Not a ‘Seductress,’ Seminary Professor Says, on Christian Post—“And so what happens, instead of us seeing the argument of the book, which is David has gone from this shepherd boy, whom God has raised up, and now he’s abusing power. We should all take that as a lesson and a warning. But instead, we’re blaming the person who brought down the power.”

If the Biblical Canon Were Open…, by Samantha Field—“I no longer think the Bible is infallible or inerrant, and I only think it’s ‘inspired’ in the mundane, artist-having-a-stroke-of-genius sense of the word. I think the Bible is written by humans and it can be wrong.”

Donald Trump Asked, “What Do You Have to Lose?” This Illinois Town Found Out, on Mother Jones—“HUD claimed the city of 2,560 was “dying,” and that it would be pointless to replace or renovate 80-year-old buildings in a dying city. Such a sentence would be self-fulfilling—boarding up Cairo’s public housing would lead to an exodus of people, jobs, and funding.”

Hate For Sale (on Etsy), on Reveal—“Etsy’s has rules prohibiting the sale of items that “support or commemorate current or historical hate groups …” [but] the site permits swastikas, when ‘used in peaceful or religious context,’ as well as other controversial items that have “educational, historical, or artistic value.”

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