The first public statue of an African American individual in the City of Philadelphia honors the remarkable man who desegregated the city's street cars, championed the 15th Amendment, and also -- in his free time -- helped make baseball history. Read more
No one has ever said to me that my use of the word "tree" was uncivil or forbidden, or that my use of it somehow delegitimized whatever it was I was communicating about those woody perennials with their elongate main stems. If I say "tree," the only question is whether the thing I refer to is, in fact, a tree. Read more
We've had 500 years to test this theory of How to Read a Text and it hasn't panned out. It turns out that texts and readers do not exist in vacuums, objectively and indifferently encountering one another uninfluenced by culture, history, context, tradition, economics or politics. Read more
Checking in with some voices from Texas on the current state of Harvey's devastation -- and on what lies ahead for the rebuilding of a sustainable Houston. The scope of the challenge is going to require the kind of audacity and gumption it took to build the Galveston seawall. Read more
“From the depths of his soul Rayford wanted to be more productive … to bring more people to Christ.” Savor the word “productive” there, and appreciate that all of the reasons why that’s so very much the wrong word are the same reasons the authors seem to have thought it was the right one. Read more
But that's not the main reason that citing this passage is a necessary response to the ugly ideology of the Nashville Statement. The main reason is because it is a devastating, scorched-earth rebuttal of precisely the theological mistake the signatories of that statement are making. Read more
This is from several cycles back, regarding one of countless, largely forgettable white evangelical "statements" and "declarations" that preceded this week's odious "Nashville Statement." It's still true. Read more
We need a thread for this. You don't need me or anyone else to tell you that this is a good time to give if you can, but still. Read more
The conservative evangelical "Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood” released a manifesto reiterating their anti-LGBT beliefs...in case we forgot. Read more
It's not a Stryper tribute band. It's a TV show about "Seven millennial women with cookbooks, guns, and the ... fight to survive." This could be the all-volunteer Christian-nationalist/prepper fantasy series you've been waiting for. Read more
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