"Financial literacy" training doesn't work, which is why Old Man Potter likes it. We were winning the War on Poverty, until we cut and run. Dr. Awojobi can save your life with corn cobs, duct tape and spare parts. Women impertinently sue, claiming they should have the same rights to religious liberty as a corporation. "Yes, that is exactly what you are supposed to do." Read more
Basically, ReligiousLeftLaw is likely to appeal to you if you're the kind of person who is inclined to like a blog titled "ReligiousLeftLaw." That name describes a Venn diagram of three overlapping circles -- people who are religious, people who identify with the "Left," and people who are interested in the law. And in the middle there, at the nexus of those three circles, you'll find this blog. Read more
Pastors in Indiana are routinely committing "behaviors that are already designated as crimes" -- assault, vandalism, terroristic threats and destruction of property -- and they are apparently doing so on Sunday mornings during their sermons. I'm not accusing them of this, but anti-gay religious-right group Advance America insists it's true. Read more
Christianity provides a compelling foundation for human rights for some Christians. But this sectarian basis for human rights cannot be compelling for those who do not belong to the Christian sect. And this sectarian basis for human rights, in practice and in fact, does not seem to be compelling for many of those who do belong to that sect. Read more
"If the gospel isn’t good news to the poor, it isn’t gospel." Half of why the clobber texts don't pack a punch. Rights for us should lead to rights for all. Christian schools aren't always proud of their most impressive alumni. "Perpetrators of violence lose their humanity. So do victims." Read more
Making Light has got one of the best comment sections on the Internet. This is a comment section that makes me cheer every time someone posts an open thread. This is a place where I've seen people ad-libbing full sonnets. Very smart and very friendly don't always go together, but they do in the Making Light community. And that's a function, I think, of the character of the folks who host that community and that long-running conversation. Read more
The motto of Media, Pennsylvania, is "Everybody's Hometown." It was my hometown, too, for more than a dozen years, and it was a terrific place to live. And in 1971, it was the scene of a remarkable piece of American history that I never heard about in all my years living there. Read more
"Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter." Read more
Someone actually notices that there are a bunch of verses before and after that one clobber-text in Romans 1. Clunkers for cash and my-kid-is-in-college cars. Kids today with their rock and their roll. Souper Bowl of Caring is a bad pun, but a good first step. Ian Welsh and Rebecca Solnit describe two antithetical views of the long run. Read more
I may have mentioned this once or twice before, but I'm a huge fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And Firefly. And Dr. Horrible. And I thought Cabin in the Woods was terrific. So, yes, I read Whedonesque -- an obsessive, frequently updated blog covering all things Joss Whedon. Read more
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