2013-10-23T16:44:18-04:00

Try not to whine about disparaging glances from your servants. Religion should not try to be cool. No one should try to be cool. Jeff Dunn on our trouble with scripture. Patti Smith covers Debby Boone, unironically. R. Tod Kelly's search for reasonal moderate "Men's Rights" activists comes up blank. What fundies mean by "love." Justin Welby invites you to be baptized. (Or, I guess, to be "baptised.") Read more

2013-10-09T16:16:22-04:00

Peter Lewis on my former employer, Gannett, and it's quest to destroy the newspaper business: "These people are lying. The corporate goal is not to serve the consumer; it's to maximize profits and pay packages for top executives. Can anyone argue that Gannett newspapers and journalism are better today, and that news consumers are better served?" Read more

2013-10-23T04:54:53-04:00

Iron and Wine covers George Michael, plus some Wednesday morning links, including: Your lying eyes, the difficulty of proving that one is not dead, zombies vs. wildlife, Yeti bears, mutant bacteria, literalist rollercoasters, prodigal bishops, astronaut film critics and the kiss that frightened Lady Bird Johnson. Read more

2013-10-23T04:08:41-04:00

More on the authoritative but "indecisive" not-so-final word. More examples of holy envy. Christian organizations tend to make tantalizingly vague announcements when they fire people. Why your asthma inhaler costs so much. Different manufactured-home neighborhood, same story. Without government, faith-based charities would collapse. Some old forgotten words and ancient melodies. Read more

2013-10-09T16:20:21-04:00

Gov. Peter Stuyvesant had ordered the good people of Flushing to expel Quakers and other "damnable" heretics from his colony. The good people of Flushing responded with their Remonstrance. In short,"We're for religious freedom, so take a hike guv." Read more

2013-10-22T03:14:38-04:00

It's possible that John MacArthur is wrong about the Pentecostals. It's possible that the Pentecostals are wrong about MacArthur. But it is undeniable that they are both wrong about the Bible. Read more

2013-10-22T03:00:12-04:00

If you haven't seen it yet, Zach Anner's "Have a Little Faith" series for Soul Pancake is a delightful, generous, neighborly, and immensely human exploration of religious belief in all its diversity. His video with Mendy Pellin, exploring Hasidic Judaism, is a good introduction to this oddly beautiful series. Read more

2013-10-22T00:28:18-04:00

Multi-billionaire given $1 million prize. Depthless insights on unusable words. Sky has not yet fallen in New Jersey. First female archbishop for Church of Sweden. The dismal news from Florida. God is not an overbearing jerk of a boss. Brandy Clark on the eternal longing for Jubilee. Read more

2013-10-10T18:28:59-04:00

Christians, this theory holds, do not regard homosexuals as particularly or especially deserving of condemnation, it's just that homosexual activists have become so vocal in promoting their radical homosexual agenda that -- purely in response -- Christians have been forced to become equally vocal in reply. Read more

2013-10-21T17:25:37-04:00

Andrew Knapp: "Many young people have an immature faith. Schools do not do them a service by helping them embrace this faith via dubious apologetics. Examination should always precede entrenchment." Read more

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