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August 2012

August 13, 2012
(This is a follow-up to this. Neil Gaiman did it first and did it better,...
August 13, 2012
This photograph of Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr and Henry Pitney Van Dusen (which I've seen...
August 13, 2012
The first book I ever read on my own -- the first book-book, one with...
August 12, 2012
One of the massive and ongoing projects in Christian theology is the filtering out of...
August 12, 2012
Mark 12:41-44 He sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money into...
August 11, 2012
Fuel up the bus, it's time for the nuns to hit the road again. This...
August 11, 2012
"What do Christian fundamentalists have against set theory?" asks Maggie Koerth-Baker at BoingBoing. She goes...
August 11, 2012
David Brin, interview with Wired magazine The notion of self-righteous indignation being a drug high...
August 11, 2012
"Well, the Barth, Theology, Philosophy and Barth. That’s not got much Barth in it." "Getting...
August 10, 2012
Concerned Women for America and the American Family Association are both urging their followers to...
August 10, 2012
Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist, pp. 37-43 Jerry Jenkins wants to write a thriller. That's...
August 10, 2012
A few weeks ago we looked at the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (HR 5647), a...
August 10, 2012
Light a candle for the world war torn "The Way," Billy Crockett "Way Down in...
August 10, 2012
So here's a common urban legend on the religious right, stated here by Phyllis Schlafly:...
August 09, 2012
Tony Jones taps his foot impatiently, muttering that much of the response to his challenge,...
August 09, 2012
(This is the second piece of my response to Tony Jones' "Challenge to Progressive Theo-bloggers."...
August 08, 2012
Back in May, I asked "Is Billy Graham being exploited for political gain?" Following that...
August 08, 2012
There are 6.4 million people in the state of Tennessee. From these it only needs...
August 08, 2012
Gershom Gorenberg: "Republicans and the 'Quality of Sodom'" A couple of strangers show up in...
August 08, 2012
"The Sikh Coalition, in collaboration with local Sikh leaders and partner Sikh organizations, will hold...
August 07, 2012
This is a disingenuous diatribe against Satanic baby-killers that exist only as an urban legend....
August 07, 2012
Perhaps you've seen the video. A peculiar fellow in a pink shirt stands on the...
August 07, 2012
Tony Jones has a challenge and an invitation for "all progressive theo-bloggers." Write something substantive...
August 07, 2012
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest...
August 07, 2012
I recently quoted from Mere Christianity, a passage in which C.S. Lewis warns against seeking...
August 07, 2012
Rob Bell in Jesus Wants to Save Christians (via) Most of the Bible is a...
August 06, 2012
Christian Piatt quotes from another of the recent statements purportedly from Billy Graham, a fundraising...
August 06, 2012
Steve Knight does not believe that recent statements allegedly from evangelist Billy Graham are really...
August 06, 2012
Yesterday, in Oak Creek, Wisconsin: At least seven people, including a gunman, have died in...
August 05, 2012
Please stop pretending that the orgy of hate last week at Chick-fil-A had anything to...
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