Let the Post Office serve the unbanked. An 'unfortunate' comparison. For misogynevangelicals, women are under the Curse of Eve and men are under the Blessing of Adam. The 10-for-$10 bargain is not actually a bargain. "What I believe about what you believe." Read more
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony / I'd like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company .... Read more
Some people expressing ignorance may need help from a teacher, some may need help from a prophet, some from a pastor, a jester, an artist, an advocate, an attorney. Always punch up, always reach down. We can be, as St. Paul wrote, "all things to all people, so that we might by all means save some." Read more
1. Dammit. 2. Am I missing something with those H&R Block ads urging us to hire them to “get your $1 billion back America“? There are more than 300 million people in America. Discount children, the retired and anybody else who doesn’t file a return (the working poor may not owe taxes, but they still have to file) and there’s probably at least 100 million of us filing income tax returns. So that $1 billion H&R Block is harping about... Read more
Many people treat the Bible unlike other very long texts. They see it as as a kind of magical code. They treat that book as though its 700,000+ words were not language -- as though they were something to decipher rather than to read. Read more
"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun." Read more
An apology, an amazing video from Todrick Hall, and some Saturday links, including: Heroic nurses, regressive theology, friendship permission slips, bad stock sermons, the Tone Police, "The Secret Teachings of All Ages," ukelele lizards and hot cocoa without quite so much child labor. Read more
The Chinese get more out of Ikea than we do. An ugly, ugly pattern repeats itself at another white evangelical institution. Instead of building the smart-grid that will allow our kids to have decentralized, renewable energy, we're building more pipelines to use up the last of the fossil fuels so out kids won't have any. These folks have hated executive orders for 151 years. "An arbitrary, irrational exclusion of just one class of citizens." This is what it sounds like when doves cry in Tuareg. Read more
Evangelism is hospitality, and hospitality is always about the guest, not about me. This video is all about me -- all about us, our tribe, our team. Trash-talking the other "tribe" is not a demonstration of hospitality. Pretty much the opposite, actually. Read more
The era of Nic as Rayford begins. Rick Perlstein on the importance of "epistemological empathy." One glacier, one centimeter of water all over one planet. I wish Pennsylvania had a Music Love Army. Men relying on Uncle Sugar for penis pumps because they can't control their libido. Kazakhstan bans books, but won't say which ones. Read more
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