1. It takes a village, says Sarah Bessey: “There isn’t any need for guilt because we rely on our village as parents, because we are part of someone else’s village. This is the way we were created: to need one another, for family, for one another. It’s not something new, folks: this is called community.”
We often talk about subsidiarity in the context of government. It’s just as vital for all the other actors involved — including families. Absentee “small” government that turns its back on the village makes parenting a lot harder than it should be.
2. If you like the con artist you have instead of an insurance company, they won’t be allowed to keep you.
3. The CFPB is still kicking ass: “The Justice Dept. and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced the largest auto loan discrimination settlement in U.S. history with the news that Ally Bank has agreed to pay $98 million, including $80 million in refunds to settle allegations that it has been charging higher interest rates to minority borrowers of car loans.”
4. “Old Hoss Radbourn” evaluates all of ESPN’s Top 100 baseball players of all time.
5. The ridiculous and shamefully self-serving use of the adjective “biblical” continues as a hallmark of white evangelicalism: “Because of the biblical manner in which Pastor Driscoll has handled this situation, Tyndale strongly stands behind him and looks forward to publishing many additional books with him.”
6. “It simply never occurred to the Catholic Church to oppose health care plans that offer contraceptive coverage until opposing the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act became a priority for the Republican Party. In fact, until the contraceptive requirement became an issue in the 2012 campaign, numerous Catholic organizations and universities offered health plans that covered contraception.”
7. Carol Howard Merritt: “Sex, Pills and the Image of God”
Christians want to fight for a corporation’s right to practice its faith by refusing to provide insurance coverage for contraception. The voices of clergy tell us that birth control is tearing at the moral fabric of our society and many point to contraception as the reason for decline of Christianity.
When we fight against contraception, we tell a generation of women that Christians don’t care about their education, productivity, or empowerment. We highlight the brooding sense that Christians don’t want women to be intelligent, working beings, but we want a woman’s worth to be solely based on her sexuality.
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