"Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love." Read more
"Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love." Read more
A couple of those year-end lists. Separated at birth? Is the audience for 'The Misfits' really composed of potential Liberty University students? Ezra Klein on the opposition to full employment: It's about keeping you powerless. "Virginity is a social construct." Read more
The idea of a troop surge -- it's never clear what these new troops would be doing -- arises from the enduring myths about Why We Lost Vietnam. We coulda/shoulda won, the myth says, if we hadn't lost our nerve, or if we'd committed more troops, or more bombs, or moremoremore of, you know, that stuff we coulda won with if we'd only used more of it. Read more
It's easy to focus on the negative -- "a lot is broken" and there's so much to do. But this is also where hope can be found -- there's so much to do and, therefore, there's so much that can be done. 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
Mallory Ortberg and Mark Driscoll offer parody apologies. The ingredients for very expensive urine. Love vs. Hate. You need empathy to get the joke. "When people get to the end there's always the brick." Read more
This isn't an example of bias, but of obliviousness. The problem is not the journalists' affluence per se, but their failure to grasp that their affluence makes them exceptional. Articles written by and for the exceptionally affluent are irrelevant to the majority of their readers. Read more
"The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace." Read more
Another way of looking at the idea of a fair bet is to ask what would happen if one had enough money to "invest" in enough tickets to guarantee a win. With the pick three games, this would mean spending $1,000 on tickets for every possible combination of numbers. Doing so would guarantee you hit the winner, taking home a prize of, say, $400. You would, in other words, be throwing away $600. That's a sucker's bet. Read more
One of the biggest such disagreements is the heated argument that pervades much of the Bible between what I call Team Jonah and Team Book of Jonah. For Team Jonah, God's plan of salvation is for the chosen few -- the righteous elect. Ninevites and Pagan sailors need not apply. God picked Abraham and rejects everyone else. You can find this view presented, asserted and defended in a host of passages throughout the Bible. But you can also find this view attacked, rebuffed and rebutted in a host of passages throughout the Bible. Read more
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