The "Duck Dynasty" affair was a test for the Christian church -- an incredibly easy test. And the white evangelical church in America failed that test. Completely, utterly failed. The overwhelming majority of white evangelicals did not respond as pastors and they did not respond as prophets. They responded as jerks. Read more
Last week brought us two separate stories involving extraterrestrial aliens and the Canadian military. Coincidence? It would be irresponsible not to speculate. Read more
Subsidiarity for parents. If insurance companies liked fleecing their customers, they won't be allowed to keep them. Consumer Finance Protection Bureau continues protecting the finances of consumers. Tyndale Press finds novel new use for the adjective "biblical." Catholic Church wasn't opposed to insurance for contraception until the GOP instructed them to be opposed to it. Read more
To boldly endorse queer theology in the church takes courage. To patiently explain such theology takes wisdom. Joseph N. Goh is doing both of those things -- in Malaysia. Read more
"For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Read more
Phil Plait is a scientist who doesn't stop wondering -- in both senses of that word. I look at some of those pictures he posts and say, "Wow." He's saying "Wow," too. And then he explains in more detail what it is we're looking at and we both say "wow" again. Read more
Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist; pp. 209-214 The tale of Buck and Tsion’s thrilling escape is not hackwork. Hackwork would have been a great improvement over this. If Jerry Jenkins were merely a hack then he could have done what hacks do in situations like this, ripping off ideas from popular stories and relying on all the standard clichés and stock tropes. Tsion Ben-Judah is a wanted man and Buck Williams has to help him escape his would be captors/killers... Read more
White evangelicals may have adopted Republican politics as a core creedal dogma, but they insist that doesn't make them right-wing ideologues and servants of the 1 percent and its machine. No, no, no, no, no -- white evangelicals are simply faithful allies of that machine because liberals are baby killers and killing babies is wrong and supporting anything supported by baby killers must be wrong. Some fraction of the anti-abortion movement's followers believe that. The most vocal leaders do not. Here's proof. Read more
Cheese brine turns out to be a bit more aromatic than rock salt, but as Norby says: "Our roads smell like Wisconsin." And that, ladies and gentlemen, is an invitation. They're spreading cheese brine on Wisconsin roadways and so their roads "smell like Wisconsin." We are thus invited to suggest appropriate rock-salt alternatives and local aromas for the other 49 states. Read more
1. This time-sucking list from Buzzfeed is designed to derail all productivity for Buffy fans. It’s easy to find something to argue with (Doyle and Clem belong higher up), but I like the top five. And I like Adam Vary’s take on Joan Appleby, aka, “Chantarelle,” aka, “Anne Steele,” whose long arc is a lovely grace note for viewers who don’t have super powers. Sorting boxes at a community center isn’t quite the same as, “I kinda wanna slay the... Read more
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