RIP Alan Rickman. Now I will never get my wish that he would one day be hired by Apple as the new voice of Siri. Also: Laws about "natural-born" citizenship seem at least racist-adjacent; the velocity of Republican Bircherization; and a video re-enactment of the proceedings of the Anglican Communion. Read more
Marco Rubio's campaign calls on a leading white evangelical "complementarian" in an attempt to recover his manhood, biblically. Plus: Diplomacy works; the academic red carpet; and "Revelation 2: Electric Boogaloo." Thus, Calvinism. Read more
This is not a minor problem. It's a huge theological mistake with implications that pervade just about every aspect of Christian teaching. When you're stating that Jews and Christians do not "worship the same God" -- which is what Wheaton's leaders are implying and what many of their #ThankYouWheaton supporters are explicitly stating -- you're doing Very Bad Theology that has a long track record of leading to Very Bad Things in history. Read more
They're reasonable people, after all. They don't want to wind up, a year from now, having to tell you that Jonas Salk was history's greatest monster. They don't want to face the prospect of disciplining professors for donating to Church World Service. But it's not up to them. Their identity is not in their own hands. Read more
You may or may not believe what I believe about the God revealed in Jesus Christ, but even if you don't believe it, I hope you'll take some encouragement from this reminder that you are fearfully and wonderfully made, and that you are infinitely and boundlessly loved -- that you are worthy of infinite love. Even if the Wisdom of the Market has declared that your value is that of a sub-living-wage cog. (Plus a bonus baseball analogy.) Read more
I had a job interview on Thursday and it seemed to go well. I think it actually did go well. But I didn't get the job. And I really, really needed that job. Read more
Your college is getting angry emails and phone calls due to misrepresentations of what one of your professors said. What can you do? Well, you can start by responding to falsehood with truth -- by correcting the widespread misinformation rather than reaffirming it. You're in the education business. Do your job. Read more
New reports clearly demonstrate he disingenuous pretense of the administration's focus on "theological concerns" about Hawkins' remarks. They recognized that her statement was theologically "innocuous," yet sprung into action under the pretext that those innocuous words presented some grave theological concern. These reports also show that Wheaton's white administrators treated a black woman very differently than they treated white male professors who said similar things. Read more
"The son of a waitress and a nightclub owner, David Jones became David Bowie, who became Ziggy Stardust, who became Aladdin Sane, who became the Thin White Duke. All of them were fictitious. All of them became iconic. ..." Read more
Tim Cunningham on the people who kept you from getting Ebola. Larry R. Morrison on the invention of the slave-owners' doctrine of "biblical inerrancy." And more smart things from Fredrick Robinson, Cynthia Meyer, and Musa Okwonga. Read more
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