The unintentional usefulness of wind-sock punditry. Sherlock met the woman at the well and how I failed to prevent the Black Death. Peter Enns on "inerrancy" as a tiny, late-arriving slice of Christianity. Bad moments in education. They are coming for your birth control. Without a healthy local press, local politicians can get away with anything. Read more
Joe.My.God. covers gay culture, politics, movies, theater, music, television, New York, the religious right, fashion, LGBT activism, bears, viral videos, fabulous disco trivia, and anything else that happens to strike Gervis' fancy. So even if, like me, you are neither a gay man nor a New Yorker, many of the things that catch Joe's interest are going to catch your interest too. Read more
An eight-question lightning round of one of our favorite games. And then a challenge from Pennsylvania: Can the Keystone State compete with Florida when it comes to the weirdly appalling and the appallingly weird? Read more
Temperatures have exceeded the 20th-century average for the past 37 years. The Magdalene Laundries are not a myth. Losing young people in a losing cause that deserves to lose. Want to know what restricts the candor and honesty of evangelical scholars? Follow the money. Zack Hunt on why there's nothing plain about a "plain reading" of an ancient text. Read more
A Church for Starving Artists is not mainly about church-management. It's about trying to imagine a better church into existence. And I very much like the vision of the-church-that-could-be that Jan Edmiston describes. Read more
In the worst-case scenario, the total cumulative level of delusion and deception remains unchanged. You've convinced me to abandon one falsehood, but you've allowed me to retain the other -- and now I've convinced you to adopt it with me. All that achieves is a slight redistribution of wrongness. We remain, collectively, just as far from the truth as when we started. Read more
Such companies thus have three options. Two of those involve improving employee compensation. The other one involves screwing over their workers. Which option do you suppose they choose? Read more
Study: Just living near evangelical Christians makes it harder for families to stay together. Actual Obamacare turns out to be a lot more "wonderful" than the monstrous thing described by "television ads and some politicians talking on the news." Republicans minority outreach. Republic cans minor E.T. outreach? More of that Niebuhr-blogging that everyone loves so much. Read more
This coming October 23 there will be a partial solar eclipse. NASA claims that this is due to something about the relative positions of the Earth, Moon and Sun. But theologians like John Piper and David Silvester know better. When the penumbral shadow begins to darken eastern Siberia at 19:37:33 GMT, they know that this is not because of the alignment of orbits, but because God is displeased with the sins of those living in Kamchatka. Read more
Very few rich people have the work ethic that most poor people have. Fox News rewrites the American Revolution. David Barton rewrites his own life. Charisma magazine goes full prepper. Hard evidence that women are not stupid. "I’m not interested in a Jesus who was only born to die and to keep me from swearing." Read more
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