Humans from Earth are central to the story in the human's Bible because that Bible was written by and for humans from Earth. This is our story. It's a human medium expressing human truths for humans. Read more
Humans from Earth are central to the story in the human's Bible because that Bible was written by and for humans from Earth. This is our story. It's a human medium expressing human truths for humans. Read more
The Rev. Canon Susan Russell, who blogs at An Inch at a Time, wound up changing her plans for the weekend when she was invited to attend Monday’s White House signing ceremony for President Obama’s executive order prohibiting LGBT employment discrimination for government contractors. Russell was one of many religious leaders present at the ceremony. Obama’s executive order simply amends the existing policy prohibiting contractors from employment discrimination on the basis of race, creed, sex, color or national origin to also prohibit employment discrimination on... Read more
Never punch down. Never be afraid to punch up. Or we can state those affirmatively: Punch up. Reach down. That covers about 94 percent of being a decent person. And if you get that right, the other 6 percent will probably take care of itself. Here's a bunch of other people saying the same thing. Read more
Let me revisit what I’m trying to say in the previous post — “Without justice, we’re not reading the same book.” Tony Jones points toward something similar in his recent discussion of Matthew Vines’ book God and the Gay Christian: Vines’s book is oddly lacking in autobiography. He briefly recounts the day that he came out to his parents — “my dad’s worst day” — but then gets right to his argument that long-term, monogamous, same-sex relationships are not contrary... Read more
We will never produce justice as a result of better biblical understanding unless we also produce better biblical understanding as a result of justice. Read more
April Bo Wang on why poor communities need fewer heroes; Morgan Guyton on Satan as the original troll; Brian Walsh gives an appropriate answer to the non-question of a junior gatekeeper; Daniel Silliman on a Sunday in Christian America; and a new Tumblr where your big sister has got your back. Read more
The Sunday afternoon links have landed, including: Furry, cotton-tailed Marxists; why biblical genealogies aren't as boring as they seem; a Klosely-held Kristian Korporation seeks its religious liberty; you wouldn't like him when he's angry; plus a bit of the old houghmagandy. Read more
"Do not let your good be spoken of as evil." Read more
Some of us have been publicly complaining about Franklin's hijacking and derailing of his father's ministry for many years, but things got more interesting this week when the Rev. Tullian Tchividjian joined the chorus. Read more
Some late-Friday stuff, including: How "love for Israel" can be a kind of anti-Semitism; worshipping the bronze serpent; bearing false witness against our neighbors; updating that infamous Lee Atwater quote; and the dangers of holistic medicine. Read more
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