"Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing. ..." Read more
"Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing. ..." Read more
If you live in the Seattle area, there is help available. If you worship at a church in Seattle, there is help available. If you're married to someone who works at a church in Seattle, there is help available. Read more
Some links in honor of the great Kalhoun, including: 300 years worth of maintenance; please stop comparing Mexico and Gaza; banks take $30 billion from poor people, keep it; the terror dreams of male gamers and others; plus backwards masking, Dornish vampires and Febreze with Gain. Read more
John H. Richardson's remarkable Esquire profile of Dr. Willie Parker is going to make a lot of people very upset. I hope that at least a few of them read the whole thing without reflexively railing against Parker in the stale terms that he anticipates, and rebuts, throughout the article. Dr. Parker says many true things and no false ones. We should not be afraid to listen to this man. Read more
Some mid-week links, including: the judgment of Paris, tsundoku, a Cosmo carcass, strip club workers endorse a preacher, unmeltable ice cream, the opposite of patent-trolling, how to speak British, and what happened after the joke. Read more
How Andy Serkis and Tony Gwynn can help us Christians understand the Great Commission and what it means to go and make disciples. Read more
A priest is asked "How does the Rapture figure into your faith?" and very patiently explains that "Left Behind" is not actually part of the canon. Industrial pollution turns a river in China blood red -- just like when Moses raised his staff and flooded the Nile with industrial pollution in the Bible! And for a one-time donation of $4.95, WorldNetDaily promises to tell you exactly when Jesus is coming back. Read more
A few things, including: ReaganBook a victim of limited government; remembering the potato patch mayor; the Benhams' "religious liberty" to disrupt worship services; amplifying smaller blogs; "all flesh" means all flesh; and what I have in common with David Koch. Read more
"Those who approach the New Testament solely through English translations face a serious linguistic obstacle to apprehending what these writings say about justice. In most English translations, the word "justice" occurs relatively infrequently. It is no surprise, then, that most English-speaking people think the New Testament does not say much about justice; the Bibles they read do not say much about justice. English translations are in this way different from translations into Latin, French, Spanish, German, Dutch -- and for all I know, most languages." Read more
David Simon on theodicy and the Yankees; Dahlia Lithwick on execution by torture; Nick Hanauer on why plutocrats should support a new New Deal; Bethany Stolle on being marked in ministry; and "The Seven Types of Modern American Bigots." Read more
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