Look at our poor cat—she doesn’t feel well at all. Maybe if we send a seed offering to Paula White, God will heal her. Just kidding, I’m not doing that. We took her to the vet. And we also did up a decent podcast (I think anyway) about Paula White and all the crazy. In fact, we work point by point through the Gospel Coalition’s piece on her. Also, we laugh at all the other kinds of Christians out there.... Read more
I spent a ponderous five minutes looking over the alarming statistics about the state of Christianity in the US, in between scrolling back and forth over the twitter feed of the now two weeks past Evolving Faith Conference. It produced a curious mental mashup—sure, no one is even Christian any more, and worse, is the little that bothers to identity itself that way even in that category? Does self-identifying as religious, or spiritual, or whatever, count for anything? If you... Read more
Look! It’s Friday! One My children have developed a pretty fabulous game where they either make up fake quotes, or adopt well known ones, or even the occasional platitude, and put them in the mouths of the wrong people. Here are some of my favorites. You always have to start with “As so and so said…” As George Washington said, “Sure is cold this winter.” As Odysseus said, “It’s about the journey, not the destination.” As Saint Peter said, “It’s... Read more
Some commenters on this blog are upset about my insensitivity towards transgenderism. I was beginning to feel bad about it but then I read this very good review of the latest GQ issue, and then I also ran into one of the articles, here, and I stopped feeling very guilty. The thing that I love best in the world today is Rod Dreher calling whatever it is that Pharrell Williams is wearing a Sleeping Bag. Amen. I have to go... Read more
Jesus wishing the sermon was over because listening to lazy preachers is the worst. One of the best follows on twitters, as I think I’ve mentioned before, is IFB preacher clips. Someone is taking the trouble to watch a lot of sermons and chop them up into bits so that you can see some of the crazy things happening in pulpits all over the place. This one got shared a lot last week, because it definitely falls into the Oh... Read more
A Spiritual Representation of the Soul of the Person Who Thought This was a Good Idea. Well, there’s a lot of crazy out there as usual, but nothing so absolutely disheartening as this article. Go on, click the link but know that you will experience a deep, whole body shudder. For those of you who lack courage, the horror begins this way: Overalls are the kind of thing we strictly associate with spring- and summertime. They drip with day-at-the-park appeal,... Read more
Podcasting at the beginning of the weekend is so bad because now we’re always behind on the news. Anyway, in this one we talk too long about David and Bathsheba and I say a lot of fascinating things, I’m sure, but I do completely get the timeline wrong. But that’s ok, because Matt biblesplains me. If you think that Bathsheba was raped, you will not love us at the end of this, but why not listen anyway! I don’t have... Read more
Clips of the democrat ‘equality’ town hall debate are showing up on twitter, cut into bite sized bits so that you don’t have to endure the whole thing. You can scroll through and watch the pronoun extravaganza and Beto explain how churches should lose their tax-exempt status. Eventually you will come to a clip of a tall African American person taking the mic from a shorter Asian person and saying a lot of things about how trans black women are... Read more
Is it Friday? Who even knows. One Matt and I did go off to a church thingy this week, distributing the children amongst our friends and trying to remotely coordinate rides to things and encourage the recovery of lost musical scripts and indulging in a little medical freaking out. Marigold’s “spider bite” on Sunday morning, of course, right before we set off, came to look like a bullseye. The gates of hell were prevailing against me pretty well, but somehow... Read more
This is funny and great. Well, by ‘funny’ I mean ‘isn’t it funny what lying liars we humans are,’ and by ‘great’ I mean the exact opposite of that. Year after year, 40 percent of Americans tell Gallup pollsters they attended church or synagogue in the past week. Yet church membership has remained flat while the population has grown. This totally happens to me occasionally as I wander about my town. I will run into a stranger upon whom I... Read more
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