"When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year (which is the year of the tithe), giving it to the Levites, the aliens, the orphans, and the widows, so that they may eat their fill within your towns." Read more
"When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year (which is the year of the tithe), giving it to the Levites, the aliens, the orphans, and the widows, so that they may eat their fill within your towns." Read more
The hacks' defense is ridiculous -- in the song and in reality -- because it can't overcome the basic arithmetic of personal thrift. It simply doesn't add up. If you're making $50 a week then no matter how penny-pinching and frugal you may be, you won't ever be able to save more than $50 a week. Your income is always going to be the upper limit on your savings and investments. Even if you give up all vices and luxuries, skip lunch, and faithfully collect all the deposits on your recyclables, it's not possible to ever put more than that original $50 a week into your little tin box. Read more
Petroleum V. Nasby is both a 19th-century satire and a 21st-century N.H. police chief. Only in Florida. Adrian Warnock helpfully describes the distinction between legitimate, Bible-believing evangelicals and people like you. Old Henry knows who Todd Starnes is, he knows that just fine. Read more
News item: "Tim Chey, the director behind the upcoming big-budget 'David and Goliath' film, told The Christian Post in an exclusive interview that the project is set to be 'biblically correct in every way,' and that he hopes audiences will be moved to tears when they see it." Read more
When we get to a relatively risk-free subject like mondegreens, we enjoy the chance to confess our confusions and to have them accepted with laughter, endearment and something like membership or belonging. It’s like a chance to dip our toes into that intimidating pool of self-revelation that someday we hope to be brave enough to plunge into completely. Read more
Mondegreens occur when both of those factors are present -- both the acoustic fragility that provides the space for ambiguous interpretation of a song's lyrics and the expectation or desire that makes the alternative interpretation preferable. Read more
The Subway police blotter. Fox grifter Todd Starnes winks at the camera. Why we need a Dignitatis Humanae for American evangelicals. Pennsylvania white supremacist celebrates two years as officer of Republican county committee. Can we trust NBC with "Hellblazer"? Read more
Matthew Vines is speaking truth to power and so, naturally, tribal gatekeepers are responding by speaking power to truth. You may remember Vines from a viral video posted to YouTube in 2012. That video has been viewed more than 700,000 times -- which is astonishing when you realize that, unlike most viral videos, it's more than an hour long and consists entirely of a lecture on biblical exegesis. Yes, that's right, Matthew Vines made substance go viral. Read more
This branding usage to define tribal status is most clearly seen in the way the term is used in those boilerplate descriptors that summarize public figures. Steve Chalke is "a prominent but controversial British Christian leader." Bill Gothard is "Basic Seminar speaker and home-schooling advocate." Read more
"These are people who have loved each other and been committed to each other for years. I've got a ceremony I'm doing for a couple that's been together longer than I've been married to my wife — 43 years. But they have never been able to live openly as married people. This is historic because now they are open. They are married. They're not just together, they're married." Read more
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