"Welcome to the first meeting of the Justice League. We'll begin by dividing ourselves into two teams, each of which will be given its specific task. ..." Read more
"Welcome to the first meeting of the Justice League. We'll begin by dividing ourselves into two teams, each of which will be given its specific task. ..." Read more
Isaiah 55:6-9: "Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. ..." Read more
Simply find two extreme views roughly equidistant from your own along whatever spectrum you see fit to consult. Declare one the thesis and the other the antithesis, and your own position the synthesis. Without actually having to defend your own position, or to explain the shortcomings of these others, you can reassure yourself that you are right and they are wrong. Read more
Juan Cole reminds us that "When Politicians promise 'Lower Taxes' they are promising Collapsed Bridges;" the Atlantic's Abigail Rine notices the evolving critique of purity culture among grassroots evangelical leaders; Darren Sherkat shows how real scientists react when others try to pervert science in pursuit of something other than the truth; William Lloyd Garrison on willful ignorance; and Letha Dawson Scanzoni on reading the Bible "like a traffic manual." Read more
Patheos collective assimilates John Shore. "I get what you get in 10 years in two days." A lesson in grace and panache. It's time to get Phyllis Schlafly off the public stage. Peter and Cornelius -- preach, Rachel, preach! "In practice they self-select for busybodies." A box full of mirrors. Read more
It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine and you show me yours. Looks like we've gotten as far as the letter "S," so here's a bunch more songs with names in the title, including Sadie, Sally, Sam, Sandy, Sara and Sean. Read more
But knowing their hypocrisy, he said unto them, "Why are you putting me to the test? Bring me a dime and let me see it." And they brought one. Then he said to them, "Whose head is this — FDR's or Herbert Hoover's?" Read more
David Swartz's book "Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism" is a history of my own little world -- a little world shaped by many of the same people who shaped me. The "evangelical left" is Mark William Olson's little world too, and as Olson says, there's another side to this history. Read more
"We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not let you alone!" Texas kills its 500th inmate, schedules another "pro-life" vote. Conservatives still don't seem to understand either consent or responsible pet ownership. Baptists and creeds, a brief review. 9 to 5 in a Chinese factory. Achieving disagreement can be a positive step. Nice is different than good. Read more
The future, I think, requires a larger but more nimble cross-platform copy desk — an editorial structure and infrastructure not strictly tied to any single platform. All content — stories, columns, photos, weather and wire service items — would flow through it and be edited for accuracy, style, grammar and spelling, emphasis, relevance, etc., so that it was ready for public consumption in whatever platform is available, whether that be print, online, multimedia, town crier or interpretive dance. Read more
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