"Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?" Read more
"Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?" Read more
Gladys Knight's version of "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me" seems like an excellent candidate for rechristening as a Jesus Is My Boyfriend song. Capitalize the word "You" throughout and I think we're looking at a can't-miss Christian radio hit. Read more
It's a display for adhesive letters and numbers for mailboxes. It's also an invitation for juvenile gags by customers. And it can also be a word game. Here are some proposed rules. Read more
Theologian J.R. Daniel Kirk's terrific Storied Theology blog is now part of the line-up on Patheos' progressive Christian channel. Writing that sentence makes me smile. Read more
This is, after all, a video recording of a dead man, the instructions for which indicate that it is not to be viewed until after his death and the mass-death of everyone in his religious community. The message of the video is, in essence: "We're all dead. You're not. Here's why." At the very best, its message could be spun as "God didn't love you enough to end your life like he ended ours." Read more
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
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