"You say, 'If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'" Read more
"You say, 'If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'" Read more
"Woe to you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be your spoil, and that you may make the orphans your prey!" Read more
"He couldn't have done this without them" wasn't specifically a statement about clergy abuse, but it sure fits. Warning: This post contains upper male Smurf nudity and is rated FeFeFe, HoHoHo, and ACapACapACap. Read more
Thomas Cranmer, Gabrielle Bellot and William Lindsey. Plus Stephanie Krehbiel on how "godly" men need to sit down, shut up, and for God's sake learn to trust and listen to women like Dina Zirlott. Read more
Buck, the author’s ideal of a real, true Christian, stridently argues against sharing food with the hungry. Feeding the hungry in Africa or Russia is, to Buck, the nightmare scenario -- an evil plot of the Antichrist. Read more
"It is categorically not legal to own a tiger within the Houston city limits." Plus: Reviving the "white slavery" panic; a megachurch thing; sustainable agriculture; and as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. Read more
We tend to be more willing to forgive people like Edwards and Whitefield for being disgracefully wrong than we are to forgive people like Benjamin Lay for being defiantly right. Read more
"Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around in the dark." Read more
It's not that "we" didn't know any better before this new era of awareness. It's that "we" had not yet been forced to acknowledge that we knew better. Read more
Over at the Anxious Bench, Philip Jenkins* continues his thoughtful series on slavery, history, and memory. The first two posts in that series were here: “Slavery, History, and Relativism,” and “Should the Fact of Slave-holding Ruin Historical Reputations?” I think that concern with “reputations” is a mistake — a way of distracting ourselves from the meaning and implications of the very important questions Jenkins is grappling with there. I discussed that last week in this post: “Bad Reputation: The right... Read more
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