A few things, including: Bigotry costs taxpayers, why wear a crucifix?, liberal fascists deny free speech rights of Neo-Nazi high school teacher, the wall of separation between editorial and advertising, time-travelers and mad scientists descend on my old home town, the Pledge is still creepy, Mookie and Wussy. Read more
So The Gospel Coalition, the not-at-all presumptuously named bloggers club of Reformed and Bro-formed white evangelicals, has given the boot to Tullian Tchividjian. Tchividjian is Billy Graham's grandson and also, more to the point, Boz Tchividjian's brother. Read more
A few things: Kudos to the National Weather Service and to the bureaucrats who wrote the standards and regulations for skylights. Two of my favorite writers on the subject of pastor's kids. Just because The Liar Tony Perkins' followers are too credulous to use Google doesn't excuse his contemptuous treatment of them. North Carolina legislators worried about dangerous chemicals, scurry to protect chemical companies from liability. Bela Lugosi's dead, indeed. Read more
A little Elvis Costello for our friends at the NRB, plus some Thursday morning links, including: Cell phones in church, a cool way for Brazilian kids to learn English, mean Baptists, the Heart of Whiteness, and three sorta similar views on the sacredness of nature. Read more
"Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love." Read more
NRB is, in other words, a gatekeeper. It is, in some ways, the gatekeeper for the white evangelical tribe. It controls the spigot determining the flow of money, attention, awareness and, above all, permission. Read more
A few things: Texas Christian argues for the right to deny service to Jews; Mike Warnke: Joke thief; Franklin Graham's new theory of atonement -- justification by biblical inerrancy; the scientific consensus of "Bible prophecy scholars;" thank you, again, Rick Santorum. Read more
With the big news yesterday out of Pennsylvania and Oregon, we take a look at Wikipedia's newly updated marriage equality map. And then, as a little reminder of the invisibility of privilege, we also take a look at the most up-to-date version of the Heterosexual Marriage Map. Read more
Superlatives are the worst. Mike Warnke is making a comeback. It's cruel to take teenagers to D.C. to make them lobby on behalf of "abstinence only" sex education. Bryan Fischer's delusional persecution fantasy is kind of true in Daytona Beach, but those Christians were fined for helping poor people, so Fischer & Co. don't care. Read more
Mega-church mega-nepotism beneficiary Matthew Hagee is a “Bible-prophecy” peddler whose politics fall somewhere to the right of the tea party, but the man can sing. Here’s his latest, “I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted,” a Southern Gospel standard by Sanford Massengale. It’s pleasant enough, even despite the clumsy hook, which riffs on, and mangles Romans 12:2: Like his dad, John Hagee, and like Tim LaHaye and every other “Bible prophecy scholar,” Matt Hagee embraces an otherworldly religion that sees our... Read more
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