"We support biblical families," Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy says of his fast-food corporation. So let's take a look at some of those biblical families. Today's entry: True family. Read more
"We support biblical families," Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy says of his fast-food corporation. So let's take a look at some of those biblical families. Today's entry: True family. Read more
Christian radio host James Dobson is repeating stale death-panels lies from 2010. His massive radio audience deserves better. They deserve to hear new, creative lies told with more flair and ingenuity. How are they supposed to work up any new outrage over the same old lies they've been hearing for three years? Read more
When social conservatives like the head of Chick-fil-A toss around "biblical" as an adjective, speaking of "biblical families" or "biblical values" as though this conveyed a clear, authoritative meaning, it's always appropriate to ask which biblical families? Or to ask which biblical values? Read more
Some science-y notes and links, including: Canadians in space; everybody else still way ahead at off-shore wind; life in unlikely places; very dedicated entomologists; Steven Chu's scandal; myths and presumptions about obesity; "the utterly bizarre penis of the American alligator;" and an arachnophobe's worst nightmare in Brazil. Read more
"We support biblical families," Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy says of his fast-food corporation. So let's take a look at some of those biblical families. Today's entry: Love your brother. Read more
This is a fact: the geocentric model of the universe is not true. That fact must inform our choice between the two possible readings of those potentially geocentrist biblical passages. Yes, one way to read those passages suggests a geocentrist teaching. But another way to read those passages does not. Given that geocentrism is, in fact, not true, it makes more sense to prefer the non-geocentrist reading. Read more
A Prayer for Men and a collection of Wednesday morning links, including: gender reports from 1916, 1918 and the 1960s; policing the language girls use; policing the language women use; telling stories; and strangers on a train. Read more
"We support biblical families," Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy says of his fast-food corporation. So let's take a look at some of those biblical families. Today's entry: David and Jonathan. Read more
Whether it's a Christian majority struggling to come to terms with their Muslim neighbors or a cisgendered majority advising a "position" of no position toward those unlike them, valuable wisdom can be found in the words of Miley Cyrus: Just put yourself in that person's shoes. Read more
Yesterday we drove past an old bar where my wife used to work when she was just starting out. That's what life is like when you're just starting out -- moonlighting jobs, long hours, stress and strain and uncertainty about whether or not you're even on the right road. Today she's at the top of her game, but she finds herself married to a man who is, once again, just starting out. ... Read more
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