Such companies thus have three options. Two of those involve improving employee compensation. The other one involves screwing over their workers. Which option do you suppose they choose? Read more
Such companies thus have three options. Two of those involve improving employee compensation. The other one involves screwing over their workers. Which option do you suppose they choose? Read more
Study: Just living near evangelical Christians makes it harder for families to stay together. Actual Obamacare turns out to be a lot more "wonderful" than the monstrous thing described by "television ads and some politicians talking on the news." Republicans minority outreach. Republic cans minor E.T. outreach? More of that Niebuhr-blogging that everyone loves so much. Read more
This coming October 23 there will be a partial solar eclipse. NASA claims that this is due to something about the relative positions of the Earth, Moon and Sun. But theologians like John Piper and David Silvester know better. When the penumbral shadow begins to darken eastern Siberia at 19:37:33 GMT, they know that this is not because of the alignment of orbits, but because God is displeased with the sins of those living in Kamchatka. Read more
Very few rich people have the work ethic that most poor people have. Fox News rewrites the American Revolution. David Barton rewrites his own life. Charisma magazine goes full prepper. Hard evidence that women are not stupid. "I’m not interested in a Jesus who was only born to die and to keep me from swearing." Read more
What I like best about Bilgrimage, I think, is that William Lindsey doesn't just consider the perspective from his own peripheries. His peripheral status, rather, has led him to seek out, engage and amplify the voices of others from other peripheries, other margins, other otherings. Read more
When white evangelicals traded in Jesus for the culture wars against the Satanic baby-killers, weird things were bound to follow, but who knew it would get this weird? Or this cruelly sick? Read more
"Satanic" monument pays tribute to centuries of lying witch-smellers. Be a good neighbor and being a good ally will take care of itself. "Never try to look cool and learn anything at the same time." Tony shutting down Tony's thing: EAPE to close its doors. Richard Rohr on reading the BIble like Jesus did. Read more
"Self-interest, however enlightened, affords no general rational basis for altruism. Altruists are simply persons who prize the welfare of others outright and irreducibly, just as everyone prizes [their] own. ... We must simply recognize that there are drives other than self-interest, and admirable ones." Read more
"Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy." Read more
It would be dreadfully foolish for me, as a Christian, to accept at face value Ayn Rand's assertion that her philosophy represented the One True Definition of Atheism. It would be foolish and wrong for me to think that I could turn around and use this definition in the same way that Rand's Randiest disciples do -- as a means of separating the wheat from the chaff and of making pronouncements about who is and who is not really, truly an atheist, or about what atheism really entails, or what all real atheists do and must really believe. Read more
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