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
Reading this older Ian Millhiser column at ThinkProgress, I’m struck by how pertinent the 1982 Supreme Court ruling in United States vs. Lee seems to be to the current Hobby Lobby hubbub. It seems to me that ruling in favor of the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby would require the justices to overturn Lee. Here’s Millhiser: One year before Bob Jones, the Court decided a case called United States v. Lee, which involved an Amish employer’s objection to paying Social Security taxes... Read more
Matthew Rindge on the need to study to shew thyself approved; Jenny Eaton Dyer says contraception saves lives; Sharon Temple won't be praying at government meetings; Renee Bracey Sherman shares the story of what happened when she shared her story; and Alan Bean reminds us, "If your theology doesn’t let you respond to deep grief, you need a new theology." Read more
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