"For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, 'Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.'" Read more
"For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, 'Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.'" Read more
Rather suddenly -- in about a decade -- white evangelical politics, identity, piety and dogma were rewritten and recentered around the assertion that a wicked Other was murdering babies. Toward the end of that decade, a con-man comedian became one of the top-selling white evangelical recording artists by concocting grisly horror stories about wicked Others who murdered babies. Toward the end of that decade, a moral panic swept the country, driven by a fear of a shadowy conspiracy of, yes, wicked Others who murdered babies. Read more
I did not become an LGBT-affirming Christian because of some scholarly research on the best way to translate "arsenokoitai" or because I learned to interpret Romans 1:26-27 in the larger context of the surrounding sentences in Romans 1:18-2:16. Nor did I come to see the full equality of women in society and in the church as a Good Thing due to the excellent exegetical work of folks like Scot McKnight in interpreting 1 Timothy 2:12. All of that is fascinating, but ultimately beside the point. Read more
Some Friday morning links and observations, including: Always give yourself all 5s on employee self-evaluations; how complicated schedules simplify wage theft; James McGrath wants to know if the Winchester boys are worth his time; unpaid exercise is nice work if you can get it; and why I'm happy to know that "desecration of a venerated object" is illegal here in Pennsylvania. Read more
Everybody's talking at me, I can't hear a word they're sayin'. Read more
"You are safer not being around police you don’t know than you are with them in your presence." Read more
A national loyalty oath is creepy ... using "civility" to reinforce inequity is rude ... the future of Roll Tide ... "biblical counseling" is neither biblical nor counseling ... Ronald Reagan did not care for Kunta Kinte. Read more
Honesty, integrity and accountability seem to have disappeared from Charisma magazine around the same time as Stephen Strang's mustache. Read more
Once you have confirmed that you are, in fact, trapped in the nightmare of a Tim LaHaye novel, you don't require a vast theological library to help you navigate what little remains of your future. All you need is one of LaHaye's books or booklets. Just the Big Chart and checklist would be enough, really. That would provide more than any other "scholarship" or "research" could tell you. Anything else would be irrelevant. Read more
Charisma has provided no comment, no explanation, no acknowledgement, and no apology. They have not denounced the vanished article or in any other way attempted to distance themselves from its enthusiasm for genocide. They just went all Minitrue, pretending as if nothing ever happened at all. Read more
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