• The teen abortion rate in America was higher before Roe v. Wade than it is today.
• The False Teachers: Tim Challies‘ series, by that name, reads like a poe or a parody written by someone like me in an attempt to mock the arrogance and epistemic closure of the self-appointed professional gatekeepers of white evangelicalism. Challies, of course, does not appear to everyone to be a self-aggrandizing, self-important buffoon. Other self-aggrandizing, self-important buffoons consider him a Very Serious Person.
This is why few things are funnier than Very Serious Persons.
Brian McLaren responds far more graciously than is appropriate.
• For some reason, reading this made me want to rewatch this. It made me feel better.
• “Georgia Governor Nathan Deal last month signed a broad expansion of the state’s gun carry rights into law, allowing legal gun owners to take weapons into bars, churches and government buildings under certain conditions.”
• Anyone who finds coprolites fascinating — and that’s everyone, amirite? — should enjoy these two recent posts by Joel Duff: “William Buckland: Minister and Geologist Grappling With Fossil Feces, Deep Time, and the Age of Reptiles,” and the follow-up, “An Ode to Coprology.”
“Deep Time” is a somewhat archaic term that I think deserves a revival, if only because that would allow us to point out that young-Earth creationists’ preposterous rejection of the reality of Deep Time constitutes a belief in Shallow Time.
• Would it surprise you to learn that Charisma magazine’s news editor and chief Succubus-hunter Jennifer LeClaire doesn’t understand irony? Not even when that irony is as over-the-top obvious as that of Lucien Greaves? (The answer should be no. This should not surprise you.)
• Here’s a fun game via Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns & Money: “What’s the worst last name ever?” There are rules. It’s trickier than it seems.
• “The State of Georgia recently liberalized their gun laws allowing owners to carry their weapons into churches, schools, libraries and bars.”
• Aging CCM nerds may have noticed the pattern in these recent link-y brief-type posts. This was one of those odd things that, once started, I suppose I should finish. And since we’ve gotten all the way to Vox Humana, it’s a good excuse to again post this delightful YouTube video by Lonnie Raper for “(It’s the Eighties, So Where’s Our) Rocket Packs”:
That song was recorded in 1984, meaning we’re almost as far removed from it as it is from the retrofuturistic images in that video. I am old.
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