"Twenty-five years have gone by, we have all grown old. But Tank Man in these pictures is still so young. From far away, his white shirt looks like a lily in summer, pure and unblemished. Tanks stopping in front of a lily. A historical moment, a poetic moment. And on the other side of that moment, maybe three thousand lives were taken away, to be forgotten." Read more
A few things, including: What it means if "you don't see any gap between God and your understanding of God;" magical crimes; arrogant academic blogger gets schooled; on the ethics of "punching down;" refuting a perennial anti-environmental lie; and an honest politician in Louisiana. Read more
Mike Warnke and Bob Larson are just con-artists who will say whatever they need to say to separate their audience from its money. That much I understand. What I don't understand is why they've had so much success peddling such horrific horror stories about imaginary monsters. Why did so many people love these stories? And even more puzzling, why did so many people desperately wish that such awful things were really true? Read more
The filmmakers don't seem to be expecting much of an audience apart from those already well-acquainted, or exclusively acquainted, with its End-Times, Rapture-mania ideology. For all their hopes that casting Nic Cage and a bunch of other semi-famous "real" movie stars might draw a larger audience, the producers don't seem to be trying to reach that larger audience here. Instead they seem to be begging the Real True Christian fans of the books to find that audience for them by inviting their "unsaved" friends as a form of witnessing. Read more
"It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the survivors of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth." Read more
#YesAllWomen. These are personal testimonies. It's Twitter, so each is necessarily short, but the cumulative effect is overwhelming. Story after story after story after story. Post after post, person after person. It's been going on for nearly a week. Read more
"I thought I saw three. I guess there were only two," he said carefully. He knew he hadn't miscounted. There had been three eggs, but he did not want to upset her. She seemed fine now, and they no longer talked about it much. But still. Read more
Julian of Norwich says, "so verily God is our Mother." Vixen Strangely on "Men Who Hate Women." Plus the Episcopal bishops of Michigan, Ed Kilgore on religious liberty, and more from Joyce Arthur. Read more
Erasing those women -- eliminating them from our imagining -- is probably the second-most horrifying thing about the ghost story that Michael Bresciani has assigned us to imagine. Perhaps even worse than that, though, is this terrifying realization: Bresciani's surreal imaginary haunting of the Obama presidential library provides an image of what the majority of white evangelicals insist that Heaven is like. 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
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