The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook HT Chris Henrichsen Read more
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook HT Chris Henrichsen Read more
My colleague Gautam Rao created posters for this past year's year-long series of events at Butler University centered around the theme of risk. Here is one of them, plus a second item he made explaining the inspiration for the first: The quote from Thimas Edison, that he had not failed over the years, he had successfully identified ways that would not achieve the creation of a lightbulb, conveys the connection between risk and innovation. If we think about the history... Read more
IO9 had a post focused on images of church buildings which have been repurposed for secular use. I will share some select examples below, but click through for many more. Churches can react to this with fear, or treat them as inspiration. In some instances, it might make more sense to the life of Christian communities to cease to have their meeting places designed for sitting facing one direction to be spoken at, and reenvisaged as pubs, restaurants, play areas,... Read more
Brian Le Port and Abram Kielsmeier-Jones blogged about a blog tour that I’ll also be participating in, and so I will simply quote Abram here: …I’ll be joining a group of bloggers in reviewing Timothy Michael Law‘s forthcoming When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible. Brian LePort at Near Emmaus is hosting. Here is the schedule for the tour: BRIAN LePORT (Friday, July 19th) Introducing the blog tour JOEL WATTS (Sunday, July 21st, http://unsettledchristianity.com/) 1 Why this Book? 2 When the World Became Greek... Read more
Much religious conservativism is blatantly self-contradictory. Take this tweet from Fox News commentator Todd Starnes in response to the supreme court decision about DOMA: The God that Todd Starnes and others like him believe in is apparently one who wants his will imposed on society, but lacks the power either to compel or to persuade sufficient numbers of people to do so. Apparently he is so powerful that he can hurl storms at areas infested with supporters of gay marriage,... Read more
In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court has struck down the Defense of Marriage Act! Read the text of the decision here. A key quote from towards the end: The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and to injure those whom the State, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.By seeking to displace this protection and treating those persons as living in marriages less respected... Read more
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Steve Wiggins shared this photo of one of the gates to the Immaculate Conception Cemetery, when open and separated from the other. There are a lot of instances of logos and names being put on opening or sliding doors with unfortunate and amusing results. There are lots of jokes that one could make. But if you are inclined to seek deeper significance and symbolism, I'd suggest thinking about it in this more positive way. Institutions tend to see how things... Read more
Philip Long put out the last call for submission for this month’s Biblical Studies Carnival. Meanwhile, the successor to the Dread Pirate NT Wrong has updated the list of Biblical Studies Carnivals and the Complete List of Biblioblogs. Read more
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