Some are born ignorant, some achieve ignorance, and some have ignorance thrust upon them. If achieving ignorance is your chief ambition, then study this hacktacular bit of unreason. Here is the key -- the surest path to ensuring that nothing can ever be learned, that no mistake can ever be admitted and therefore no error can ever be corrected, no wrong ever righted, no harm ever ended, no injustice ever overturned. Read more
"Conversionism" is one of the defining characteristics of white evangelicalism -- part of the famous "Bebbington quadrilateral" that attempts to define this amorphous stream of Protestant faith. But conversionism is an empty set, a cipher, a blank slate. It is meaningless unless we can first answer two unasked and unanswered questions: Conversion to what? And conversion from what? Read more
A little Wussy, plus some Monday links, including: Solar roadways, hosting your own funeral, landed gentry, seventh-century sex, rewritten rules, culinary solutions, government sarcasm detectors, and geocentrists and their heirs. Read more
"Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners." Read more
A few things, including: Jesus couldn't dance like Fred and Ginger; Christian Swingle; our Judeo-Christian heritage; promoted for plagiarism; "it will only stare;" coming through the fog our sons and daughters. Read more
A few things, including: Commencement commences; Molly Worthen on the incredible shrinking Southern Baptist Convention; Christianity Today and gender disparity; everybody's got a black cousin; Limax maximus porn; new study confirms an old trick; an atheist Advent hymn. Read more
A few things, including: Sunday school malpractice; Alice's hippie Jesus; an unfortunate billboard; Ararat and Olympus Mons; James Dobson's "freedom to worship;" and poor Wayne, still in handcuffs after 30 years. 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
"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
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