A few things: Flooding and train derailments are not acts of divine intervention sent to punish the sinful. Thanks a lot, Senate Republicans, for blocking a vote on giving me a raise. "Most Americans still believe that race invented racism, when in fact the reverse is true." They are coming for your birth control. Read more
In 1952, Congress passed a law establishing the National Day of Prayer as an annual religious observance. Quick: give me another sentence that uses the words "Congress," "law," "establish" and "religion." 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
I've sometimes joked that Christian ethics is the 2,000-year quest to find loopholes in the Sermon on the Mount. The impressive thing about Glen Stassen was that he took those words of Jesus seriously, making them the foundation of his work. Read more
Some links for a soggy Wednesday: Two stories about the two options the future holds for manufactured home-owners. Mabel Williams lived a remarkable American life. A terrific video on why Philly tawks the way it does. There's no such thing as a humble young-Earth creationist. Read more
If we were playing Left Behind Trivia Quiz and the question was "What did Rosenzweig's formula do?" or "What became of Israel's deserts after Rosenzweig's invention?" I would have gotten those questions right. And yet I was dozens of pages into my umpteenth reading of Buck's escape across the Israeli desert before it struck me that everything about this scene is wrong. Read more
Crystal blue sky paint a clue to problems at Indiana church. The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but maintains the widow's boundaries -- and a Pennsylvania judge does the opposite over $6.30. Free speech explained in cartoon and in verse. Cedarville University does not approve of women faculty, student newspapers, or professors who make clumsily obvious dick jokes. Plus Sarah Posner on Sarah Palin, and why getting banished by the tribal gatekeepers is the best thing that could ever happen to you. Read more
Send the rich away empty. Two questions for defenders of Uganda's anti-gay law. Barcelona star "thanks" racist fan for nutritious "gift." Mosquitoes are annoying, and deadly. Nicolae Carpathia and the Affordable Care Act. "Nazareth" may give Jesus the "Smallville" treatment. I just now learned the name of one of my favorite musicians. Read more
One solution would have been to repent -- to advocate justice rather than opposing it. But white evangelicalism didn't take that path. Instead, it struck upon an ingenious solution: If the key moral issues facing the culture make it clear that you're on the wrong side, introduce a new moral issue on which you can be right while everybody else is wrong. Read more
"And when I was born, I began to breathe the common air, and fell upon the kindred earth; my first sound was a cry, as is true of all. ... There is for all one entrance into life, and one way out." Read more
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