People who live in manufactured homes are in a vulnerable situation. They own their home, but not the land it sits on, for which they must pay rent. Just like apartment dwellers, they have leases and those leases can include rent increases when they are up for renewal. But here apartment dwellers are at an advantage — we are far more mobile, more able to move elsewhere if confronted with an unreasonable increase in rent. Read more
Here, again, we see the daunting problem facing people like me when we try to read a book like the Bible. The Bible was not written by people like me, and it was not written for people like me, and people like me will never be able to understand it until we come to grips with that. Read more
Kimberly Knight celebrates the sight of a long arc "bending before our very eyes;" Gershom Gorenberg says realism demands admitting reasons for hope; Dean Burnett challenges a sacred cow of corporate culture; James McGrath finds something nice to say about young-Earth creationists; and the Women of WIT ponder love and revelation. Read more
The name "Battle Cry" -- and especially the shameless, spiritualized dick-swinging of the "City Hall Rally" -- has little to do with what St. Paul meant by "spiritual warfare." It is, instead, the latest example of all that the so-called "culture warriors" seem capable of: Marking their territory by pissing on trees. Read more
It might seem preposterous to you that Team Christian would try to pretend that Google's honoring of a Christian hero constitutes some kind of horrific insult to Christianity, but I would remind you that nowhere in the rules of the Game does it say that Outrage points cannot be awarded for preposterous and imaginary reasons. Read more
In case you missed them, here are the posts that got the most attention here last month, featuring: A new pope, an anti-gay 'rap' video, culture-war updates, lots of Left Behind, mandatory abortions at evangelical colleges, Noah's ark, Michele Bachmann, and an old post from 2012 that is happily still being read. Read more
April 1, 1968, on this blog: Computers are a fad: "Just attended this presentation, in which Douglas Englebart of the Stanford Research Institute argues that mechanized thinking machines will 'augment the human intellect.'" Read more
"So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid." Read more
Ecclesiastes 7:1-2: "A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death, than the day of birth. ... for this is the end of everyone, and the living will lay it to heart." Read more
"For even when we were with you we gave you this command: Anyone unwilling to work should not eat." This passage entails a clear responsibility to work. With that responsibility comes the corresponding right to work. Read more
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