The diligent researchers at Deadspin have now provided scientific confirmation of our fair city's strange immunity to cinematic destruction. Their interactive map, "How Hollywood Has Destroyed America," reveals a paltry three films portraying the destruction of Philadelphia. That's one fewer than Perfection, Nevada, a fictional town with a population of 14. Read more
"Efficiency and progress is ours once more / Now that we have the Neutron bomb ..." Read more
I do not believe, as it appears, that CT's comment thread is the work of some of the most awful, self-righteous, fearful, priggish blowhards to ever walk the Earth. I believe, rather, that it is the work of people who have been trained to believe that unless they present themselves as the most awful, self-righteous, fearful and priggish blowhards to ever walk the Earth then they will be condemned and cast out of their community. Read more
The playwright's husband was a Brit, and evangelical Christians in the UK don't carry the same 19th-century cultural baggage as evangelical Christians in America do. But still, he knew that many American evangelicals regarded beer-drinking as sinful and theologically fraught. He understood that it wouldn't be prudent for him, as a representative of sorts of a large evangelical organization, to be seen in public drinking a beer. That would be a source of "controversy." ... Read more
Eric Metaxas: Still utterly wrong about Bonhoeffer, about himself, and about any comparison between the two. How not to do evangelism. Wage-theft so common there's a standardized complaint form. A depressingly useful bit of British slang. Read more
I've banned one recent visitor from commenting here due to his trollery, sock-puppetry and poo-flinging vandalism. While his intentions towards everyone else here were entirely negative, I still hope that his brief interaction with this site might have touched his life in some positive way. So here is my gift to him and to all the other trolls I've had to ban over the years. It's a delicious recipe I hope they'll try and I know they'll enjoy: Escolar with Garlic Butter. Read more
"For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life." Read more
Tim Whewell of the BBC reports from the Central African Republic, where "Christian" genocidaires are slaughtering the Muslim population. In the remote western village of Carnot, the few surviving Muslims for hundreds of miles have found refuge, at least temporarily, thanks to a Catholic priest named Justin Nary and a handful of African Union peacekeepers. The story is horrifying on every level. Read more
"This woman right here? Believes in killing babies. That man believes in killing babies. That woman over there, that woman over there, that woman right there, that woman right there, believes in killing babies. That is against the law of God. ... They want to kill babies." Read more
Tom Junod: "It was the condition of those children that was the true profanation of the funeral of Fred McFeely Rogers, , in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2003, and it is eerie symmetry that the day of Fred Phelps died is also the day Fred Rogers would have turned 86. I am tempted to call it karma, and to crow that such coincidence offers indisputable proof that in the mind of God, the good Fred wins." Read more
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