2020-02-11T11:01:31-05:00

Here is your open thread for February 12, 2020. Today is the 211th birthday of Charles Darwin. Cotton Mather was born on February 12, 1663, in Boston. He wrote more than 400 books, not all of which were completely bonkers. Mather’s ideas about spiritual warfare and its corporeal manifestations were as whackadoodle as anything spouted nowadays by Frank Peretti or Paula White or the writers at Charismanews, and due to his spiritual influence in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, those ideas... Read more

2020-02-10T20:52:36-05:00

Here's your open thread for February 11, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves. Read more

2020-02-09T21:25:23-05:00

Here is your open thread for February 10, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves. Read more

2020-02-09T02:11:51-05:00

"Loose the bonds of injustice, undo the thongs of the yoke, let the oppressed go free, and break every yoke. Share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house." Read more

2020-02-09T02:01:33-05:00

Here is your open thread for February 9, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves. Read more

2020-02-07T23:23:40-05:00

Here is your open thread for February 8, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves. Read more

2020-02-05T11:14:32-05:00

The passive voice of that phrase from the Lord's Prayer is allowed to mask the subject of the sentence — to pretend it doesn't really have one. The do-er is not named or acknowledged. God's will will "be done," but no one, in particular, will have to do it. Read more

2020-02-04T19:09:09-05:00

Here is your open thread for February 7, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves. Read more

2020-02-04T16:45:30-05:00

Here is your open thread for February 6, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves. Read more

2020-02-04T15:51:55-05:00

Here is your open thread for February 5, 2020. Talk amongst yourselves. Read more


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