Chloe undergoes a change in personality following her recitation of the magic words, but the change is entirely one of subtraction, not of addition. Her “conversion” is thus one of the saddest events in a book full of woes and calamities. Read more
Chloe undergoes a change in personality following her recitation of the magic words, but the change is entirely one of subtraction, not of addition. Her “conversion” is thus one of the saddest events in a book full of woes and calamities. Read more
What conservative white evangelicals believe and say in 2017 is very different from what they believed and said in 1975. And what they said back then is, in their circles, no longer allowed to be believed and no longer allowed to be spoken. Read more
Not-Garland joined his fellow robed partisans to uphold racial gerrymandering in Texas. How long does the absolute correlation and unbroken pattern have to continue before we're allowed to talk about the obvious conclusion? Plus: Credit-rating agencies are terrible at their job and have outlived any plausible claim that their continued existence is justified. Burn them down and salt the earth. Read more
When you "like" a pornographic tweet from your boss's account, it creates a teachable and hilarious moment. Read more
Here's the next little bit from Norman Geisler's unremarkable, unremarked on, conservative white evangelical book Ethics: Alternatives and Issues, 1975 edition. Guy could be a bit repetitive. Read more
David W. Congdon on what it is that we're saved from. (He provides a Latin phrase, but I'm thinking of a shorter American one.) Plus: the Yaris hits a milestone; Christian textbooks that celebrate treason in defense of slavery; and 100 Funny Movies that may or may not all be, like, ha-ha funny. Read more
The following is from Ethics: Alternatives and Issues, by Norman L. Geisler. The book was originally published in 1971, by the evangelical publishing house Zondervan. This is from the third printing, in 1975. Later, we can discuss the substance of this and unpack it in greater detail. For now, I just want to put this out there and to note that Geisler was, and still is, regarded by himself and by others as a conservative white evangelical. When this book came... Read more
So here are the three things I read and/or post every year. First is John M. Ford’s “110 Stories,” which gets to me every time I read it, always at a different line. And then “Meet Me Mary’s Place,” which picks up where “This is New York. We’ll find a place to dance” leaves off. It’s probably my favorite party song about grief and living in the presence of absence. And then this, from E.B. White in the 1948 essay “Here Is... Read more
Two very different groups of American Christians put out statements this week. (Yes, again. More statements.) The good news is that these two are Good News. Read more
(Thursday got away from me, so I'm posting this early.) Left Behind involves the mass disintegration of every child on earth and the rise of a cruel global tyrant. But the scariest parts of the book involve the way Rayford Steele and Buck Williams treat women. Read more
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