Who is Jesus? What did he do? What did he teach? Why was he arrested and tortured and killed? And how is it possible that wasn't the end of his story? Those are the questions, long after that first Christmas in Bethlehem, that the Gospel writer was trying to answer. And right off the bat, in the very first chapter of Luke, we are given a summary of "all that Jesus began to do and to teach." Read more
Good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. All people -- including the shepherds and Shane and Kirsty and Jack and Ennis and Anne and Tom and Terry and the biker with the Volga boatman mustache. Here's hoping it's a busy night for Marley and the other ghosts. Read more
Have some links, because "We are AWESOME!" Featuring: Renegade librarians; the Muslim/liberal conspiracy; the Daesh/Plumber conspiracy; America's favorite Bible verse/anti-masturbation mantra; a jury of one's peers; a NOM nativity; and the History Channel goes Full Scofield. Read more
If it's almost 2015, then that means within just four years -- during the current term of U.S. senators elected last month -- replicants will roam the streets of a rain-soaked dystopian Los Angeles ("Blade Runner"), the most popular TV show in the world will be "The Running Man," and an electromagnetic pulse will turn the Pacific Northwest into a militarized police state patrolled by flying drones ("Dark Angel"). Read more
Some Monday catch-up links, including: Happy Hanukkah, from Woody Guthrie; St, Louis officials both support and condemn false testimony; former Abu Ghraib guard getting a Christmas present this week; and some highlights from an Internet forum for clueless racist morons and/or our bravest noblest bestest heroes. Read more
Willie James Jennings and Radley Balko on law and order; Kathryn Joyce on Bob Jones and GRACE; Addison Hodges Hart on the difference between biblicism and the Bible; and Sen. Elizabeth Warren puts the fear of God into Citigroup. Read more
"On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact mid-point, everybody stops and turns and hugs. ..." Read more
"Sure, Charlie Brown. I can tell you what Christmas is all about. Lights, please. 'Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, emptied himself ...'" Read more
"Do not be afraid; for see — I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord." Read more
Opposition to the burning of kittens is not what sets the members of the AKBC apart from everyone else. What sets them apart is their strange belief that they are a special, beleaguered minority. What sets them apart is their refusal and/or inability to recognize that opposition to the burning of kittens is a unanimous, universally shared opinion. Apart from the AKBC, most people don't feel a need to imagine or to pretend that there exists somewhere a vast Pro-Kitten-Burning Coalition that they must denounce as a demonstration of their moral superiority. Read more
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