Leviticus 19:9-10: "When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You shall not strip your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the alien: I am the Lord your God." Read more
Some terrific bloggers advance the conversation. "True sociopaths are not delusional," Alan Bean says. The corporate behavior Jason Dye describes might be either sociopathic or delusional. And William Lindsey contrasts Catholic and evangelical tribalism. Read more
Here's a bunch of stuff I probably should've posted earlier in the week, including: culture-warrior tires of "being angry all the time;" Patheos' increasingly impressive atheist channel; an awkward pause in New Zealand's marriage equality debate; our credit-scoring overlords; the wrong side of history; and the awesome heroics of the Fool Soldiers. Read more
Last month we talked about tribalism, religious privilege, the white evangelical persecution complex, company towns, Rules for Christian Sex, and Dungeons & Dragons. Read more
Parables are irreducible — the meaning of the story can't be separated from the story itself. Whenever you hear the preacher say, "What this parable means is …" you know he's got it wrong, or at least incomplete. They're not fables that can be summed up in a tidy, didactic "moral of the story." Read more
The lesson here seems to be, roughly, "Husbands, cater to her feelings and make her think you're really listening when your wife talks about … oh, you know … whatever it is that wives talk about when they talk about all that woman-ish stuff." Read more
It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine, you show me yours. More celebrity songs this week, including songs named for famous chess masters, astronomers, prophets, funksters, actors, writers and psychotherapists. 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: Parents, spouses, children, siblings. Read more
Justin Lee offers a smart, gentle lesson about why we shouldn't obsess over the sex lives of other people. Mike Moore offers a similar, but not quite so gentle lesson on the same point, and by the time he's done, somebody won't be allowed in that barbecue joint anymore. Read more
The headliner at the 1960 Republican rally was the vice president, Richard Nixon, the party's candidate for President of the United States. Dad wasn't asked to introduce the vice president, he got to do something far cooler. He introduced the speaker who would introduce Nixon: Jackie Robinson. Read more
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