What I like best about Bilgrimage, I think, is that William Lindsey doesn't just consider the perspective from his own peripheries. His peripheral status, rather, has led him to seek out, engage and amplify the voices of others from other peripheries, other margins, other otherings. Read more
When white evangelicals traded in Jesus for the culture wars against the Satanic baby-killers, weird things were bound to follow, but who knew it would get this weird? Or this cruelly sick? Read more
"Satanic" monument pays tribute to centuries of lying witch-smellers. Be a good neighbor and being a good ally will take care of itself. "Never try to look cool and learn anything at the same time." Tony shutting down Tony's thing: EAPE to close its doors. Richard Rohr on reading the BIble like Jesus did. Read more
"Self-interest, however enlightened, affords no general rational basis for altruism. Altruists are simply persons who prize the welfare of others outright and irreducibly, just as everyone prizes [their] own. ... We must simply recognize that there are drives other than self-interest, and admirable ones." Read more
"Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy." Read more
It would be dreadfully foolish for me, as a Christian, to accept at face value Ayn Rand's assertion that her philosophy represented the One True Definition of Atheism. It would be foolish and wrong for me to think that I could turn around and use this definition in the same way that Rand's Randiest disciples do -- as a means of separating the wheat from the chaff and of making pronouncements about who is and who is not really, truly an atheist, or about what atheism really entails, or what all real atheists do and must really believe. Read more
Rather than post something half-assed today, I'll be posting something tomorrow that will, I hope, be wholly and completely -assed. Thank you for your patience. Read more
Instead of Bill Nye, I would like to see a formal debate between young-Earth creationist Ken Ham and a 6.5-meter core sample taken from a peat bog in Switzerland. Aww yeah, Acts 10 & 11, baby. More Jerks for Jesus. One problem with trying to write while the tribal gatekeepers are looking over your shoulder. Frank Luntz agonistes. Read more
"I am interested in writing that shows me the world in a new way," says the blogger who gives us the wonderful Phantom's List every week. That's just what her weekly list of "writing by women around the Web" provides. Read more
By assembling one single Very Bad evangelism-training video out of several less-bad videos, this editing confuses the point. It blurs the different kinds of badness to be found in the originals. That makes it more difficult to analyze or understand why those different original videos were bad in different ways. Read more
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