"As they were going along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, ‘Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized?’ He commanded the chariot to stop, and both of them, Philip and the eunuch, went down into the water, and Philip baptized him." Read more
Prayer sessions seem to be these books' version of the training montage in 1980s movies. These prayer scenes don't have any of the key ingredients that every good training montage needs, but that doesn't mean the authors aren't trying to use these scenes in the same way. It just means that the authors aren't any good at what they're trying to do. Read more
The Daily Show interviews a remarkable Russian woman about what gives her the hope and courage to protest her country's ugly new anti-gay laws. "There is a quote from an American TV show called 'Angel.'" she says ... Read more
This is just to say that "snowflakes that fall on my nose and eyelashes" are officially no longer one of my favorite things. Nor are silver white winters that melt into springs. I like the melting part, and the spring part. But I've had quite enough of this silver white business, thanks. Read more
Women bloggers starting to make the men a little nervous; Texas football reporter quotes Audre Lorde; "epistemological synecdoche;" Darth Vader, Superman look on as man smashes police car; Bank of America gives back $245 it took from a customer; "In intellectual terms, Schaeffer and Lindsey were hacks at best, charlatans at worst." Read more
Even by the loony, loopy standards of the anti-rock-preacher circuit, Sketch Erickson stood out. He was obsessed with Elvis -- tracing all the evils in pop music, pop culture, and the entire world back to "Elvis. Aron. Presley." He always said the name like that -- first, middle, last, emphasizing each one. That serpent in the Garden of Eden with its sinuous hips? Elvis. Aron. Presley. Read more
The clobber-text hermeneutic is always and everywhere a barrier to love and to justice. That's what it's for. That is it's design, purpose, intention and primary function. Young-Earth creationism is both a product of the clobber-text hermeneutic and a buttress that reinforces it. Read more
Oh good, another huge snowstorm. A historically disreputable abbot. The archbishop takes sides with the drag queen. Credit-rating agencies are very good at being terrible at their jobs. The majestic equality of Florida law. Why Bible-reading doesn't count as "Bible-minded." Read more
Today, we have science. We're so accustomed to this that we assume we've always had science -- that we have always referred to and accounted for nature through the lens of science. But we didn't always do this. We didn't always have this any more than Italy has always had tomatoes or Israel has always had camels. Read more
The plot of "Junebug" is easy to summarize -- the older son who moved off to the city up North returns home with his city wife to visit his family. But it's much harder to say what this movie is about. I think maybe, in part, it's about the possibility and impossibility of ever knowing another person. Read more
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