"This is my idea of fun," millionaire congressman says of the shutdown. Victims of Hurricane Sandy were "moochers," but victims of disasters in Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado deserve relief. Being criticized over multimillion-dollar bonuses is just like getting lynched. "I didn’t risk my life in Afghanistan so I could come back and watch people go hungry in America. I certainly didn’t risk it so I could come back and go hungry." And more ... Read more
Five loaves and two penises in Venezuela. The news from North Carolina. Eight and a half signs your religion may be harmful. New York City offers legal protection for pregnant workers. Tony Jones is a meliorist! Another sign your religion may be harmful: You feel guilty that you're happy for Cam and Mitchell. Read more
Referring to polygraphs as "lie detectors" is inaccurate and, well, a lie. Read more
"I would rather die in the battle for truth than continue living under the chaos and tyranny that is coming upon us. And so some things are worth dying for, whether it's in our own emotions or in our own ambitions or whether it's actual, physical death. Some things are worth standing for and it's time for us to stand up." Read more
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The first day of the government shut-down was a bit like a nationwide snow-day. Hundreds of thousands of people lost one day's pay, and a bunch of stuff was inconveniently closed, but no big deal, right? The problem is that the economic cost multiplies the longer the shutdown lasts. Read more
The Hobby Lobby will not be wishing you a Happy Hannukah. "Heads of the Church have often been narcissists." Anti-Muslim fear-mongering racket still not as lucrative as the anti-gay fear-mongering racket. How America shot down the "Theology of Hope." Wendell Berry gets his own TV show. Virginia Woolf didn't finish "Ulysses" either. Why do we read horror stories? Read more
Gandhi's Seven Deadly Sins: Wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; science without humanity; knowledge without character; politics without principle; commerce without morality; worship without sacrifice. Read more
Most of the hostility toward contextual theologies comes from people under the false impression that they're not, themselves, also doing contextual theology. But there's no such thing as non-contextual theology -- only the contextual theology of people who are unable or unwilling to perceive their own contexts as contexts. Read more
I've written plenty here about Southern Baptist bigwig Al Mohler's young-Earth creationism. And I've written about Mohler's staggering, transparent ambition. But I hadn't ever really appreciated how those two things fit together until I read Alan Bean's recent insightful post, "Why Al Mohler believes the world is 6,000 years old." Read more
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