I learn that the Templeton Foundation was a big promoter of Gamergate and it reminds me of the time I met Harry Thomas at Creation Festival and the time I drove John Howard Yoder to the airport. Read more
I learn that the Templeton Foundation was a big promoter of Gamergate and it reminds me of the time I met Harry Thomas at Creation Festival and the time I drove John Howard Yoder to the airport. Read more
"Ah, 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
"Most blessed of women be Jael ... She put her hand to the tent-peg, she shattered and pierced his temple." Read more
Adam Serwer and Kristin Du Mez are, yet again, smart. Nathan J. Robinson and Elizabeth Bruenig should be read more than once. Oh, and the late Gregory Peck is still smart, too. Read more
Roger Ebert noted that writing two characters who are meant for each other is the easy part of romantic comedy. The hard part is devising a way to keep them apart for an hour and a half without making them seem like idiots. Jenkins here gets both parts wrong. Read more
Mark Taylor, Donald Trump, thousands of abusive priests, the bishops that defend them, Paige Patterson, Richard Land, Brett Kavanaugh ... God have mercy, men are awful. Read more
The key thing here is not that Kavanaugh's blanket denials were false. The key thing here is the shape that can be discerned beneath the blanket. We know that shape. We've seen it before. Read more
Hey did you hear about the white evangelical institution that took a positive step toward something less awful, more inclusive, and more just? Oh, wait ... never mind. Read more
That coincidence of timing was stunning in part because the details of the 2006 crime that Bruenig recounts are remarkably close to the description of the 1982 crime at the center of last week's Senate hearings. Read more
"Deep movie emotions for me usually come not when the characters are sad, but when they are good," Roger Ebert writes. "You will see what I mean." Read more