Proven liar Todd Starnes tweeted that "The Grammys mock God, marginalize the Bible" at the very moment that Mary Lambert was belting words written by the Apostle Paul. "Macklemore launches a hate-filled, bigoted, intolerant diatribe against Christians," Starnes tweeted. "Love is patient, love is kind," Lambert sang. It doesn't get much more traditional than having someone read 1 Corinthians 13 at a wedding. Read more
John Corvino on clobber-texters. A prayer request for the Two Friars and a Fool Kickstarter project. The Fraudbuster busted for fraud. Wildlife and wildlings. New Jersey passes statewide protection for pregnant workers. Dietrich Bonhoeffer exlains why religious people got on his nerves. Read more
"For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt-offerings." Read more
The miracle-or-bust approach of reckless heroes with no plans doesn't necessarily make for a bad story. And thus the little Tsion's Escape From Zion subplot in these chapters of "Nicolae" didn't necessarily have to be so awful. So let's look at some of the ingredients of a successful leap-of-faith story, so that later we can see how the lack of these ingredients accounts for the awfulness of Buck Williams' little adventure. Read more
The unintentional usefulness of wind-sock punditry. Sherlock met the woman at the well and how I failed to prevent the Black Death. Peter Enns on "inerrancy" as a tiny, late-arriving slice of Christianity. Bad moments in education. They are coming for your birth control. Without a healthy local press, local politicians can get away with anything. Read more
Joe.My.God. covers gay culture, politics, movies, theater, music, television, New York, the religious right, fashion, LGBT activism, bears, viral videos, fabulous disco trivia, and anything else that happens to strike Gervis' fancy. So even if, like me, you are neither a gay man nor a New Yorker, many of the things that catch Joe's interest are going to catch your interest too. Read more
An eight-question lightning round of one of our favorite games. And then a challenge from Pennsylvania: Can the Keystone State compete with Florida when it comes to the weirdly appalling and the appallingly weird? Read more
Temperatures have exceeded the 20th-century average for the past 37 years. The Magdalene Laundries are not a myth. Losing young people in a losing cause that deserves to lose. Want to know what restricts the candor and honesty of evangelical scholars? Follow the money. Zack Hunt on why there's nothing plain about a "plain reading" of an ancient text. Read more
A Church for Starving Artists is not mainly about church-management. It's about trying to imagine a better church into existence. And I very much like the vision of the-church-that-could-be that Jan Edmiston describes. Read more
In the worst-case scenario, the total cumulative level of delusion and deception remains unchanged. You've convinced me to abandon one falsehood, but you've allowed me to retain the other -- and now I've convinced you to adopt it with me. All that achieves is a slight redistribution of wrongness. We remain, collectively, just as far from the truth as when we started. Read more
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