Faced with the moral and political test of tens of thousands of child refugees, some Americans are responding better than others. Read more
Faced with the moral and political test of tens of thousands of child refugees, some Americans are responding better than others. Read more
So, OK, I missed the Emmys -- did Tatiana Maslany win for lead actress or supporting actress? Or both? (Plus some other links and stuff.) Read more
Romantic comedies are supposed to be about two people coming together -- they both have to move toward each other. The set-up for "Christian Mingle: The Movie" suggests that one side of this couple doesn't move -- that he cannot and should not change because he's already got all the answers. She pursues him because she's lonely (and because, the trailer seems to suggest, no woman is complete without getting married). Why does he pursue her? Read more
If you accept the anti-abortion premise and the anti-abortion logic of the Catholic hierarchy's opposition to the ice-bucket challenge, then you must also believe that IVF fertility clinics are slaughterhouses far worse than any abortion clinic. You must also believe that couples who have used IVF treatments to have children are also morally repugnant killers complicit in mass murder. Read more
"When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God." Read more
"Anyone who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge; but anyone who loves God is known by him." Read more
Here are some excellent articles and resources explaining the basic outlines of the current child refugee situation, its causes, and some possible responses. Read more
Springsteen on The Road, plus a bunch of strange and wonderful things for a Friday morning. Read more
"Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter." Read more
The "theological crisis" of slavery was a test. White Christianity failed that test. White theology failed that test. White hermeneutics failed that test. White biblical interpretation failed that test. White piety failed that test. White devotion, white discipleship, white ecclesiology, white soteriology, white eschatology all failed that test. And yet we haven't changed any of those things accordingly. We're sticking with those same failing answers and calling it "faithfulness." Read more
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