Gandhi's favorite Christian hymn. Silent Scream 2. Street preachers, Pagans and hot cocoa. Searching for acceptable white Christianity in Manhattan. CFPB gets a win against payday lenders. Johnny Cash and international diplomacy. Read more
Gandhi's favorite Christian hymn. Silent Scream 2. Street preachers, Pagans and hot cocoa. Searching for acceptable white Christianity in Manhattan. CFPB gets a win against payday lenders. Johnny Cash and international diplomacy. Read more
It’s actually even stranger than that — they have to suddenly switch from arguing that Nancy Pelosi is a demon because she believes X to arguing that George Bush is a genius and a patriot because he believes X, all while somehow arguing that Pelosi is still a demon. It’s like the Triple Lindy of cognitive dissonance. Read more
The current system of clergy compensation is unconstitutional. But it's still the current system of clergy compensation. It may be a kludgey, unconstitutional mess, but that mess is how things operate at the moment. You can't knock out a bearing wall and then put in the new support beams to replace it. You've got to replace it first or you'll wind up with an even bigger mess when the ceiling falls in. Read more
The housing-allowance exemption for clergy is a mess. It's a kludge -- an inelegant work-around for one problem that has, in turn, created other problems for which other clumsy, inelegant work-arounds have had to be devised. It works, sort of, but it doesn't work well. Oh, and it's also obviously unconstitutional. Read more
Mallory Ortberg looks at the book of Revelation as filtered through "Sleepy Hollow." Harvard's Christian fellowship publishes anti-Semitic mythology, then decides maybe it needs more editing. Alexander Hamilton commends the "nuclear option" to restore voting in the U.S. Senate. "20 Things the Working Poor Do Every Day." Who are America's angriest white men? A theory of tribalism: "pride is the only card left to play when it comes to saving face." Read more
We expect and require our candidates to appear presentable. And at the same time we expect and require them to tell us that they expend no money or time meeting this expectation. Read more
Christians haven't been reading the Bible this way for 2,000 years, because for most of the last 2,000 years, most Christians weren't reading the Bible at all. Read more
"Ah, you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be your spoil, and that you may make the orphans your prey!" Read more
Only once did the Institute on Religion & Democracy have any significant real-world impact, and that ignoble incident became a black mark from which it took IRD years to recover. They got people killed. Read more
This is series of books in which, in the first chapter of Book 1, everyone everywhere lost all of their children. Yet since then, Tsion Ben-Judah is only the fourth person we've seen responding to this loss. Read more
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