It's exciting to pretend you're standing up against Satan. It's pleasant to imagine that you are more righteous than your Facebook friends because you avoid the abbreviation LOL. What a convenient tribal marker to set you apart as a heroic, good and godly person. Read more
Tuesday morning links, including: Richard Feynman and Marco Rubio on the meaning of science; the abortion rate is way down; military retention is not; the war on some people who use some drugs; "the fly tainting the milk of our human kindness;" a running back moonlights; and an addictively gorgeous tumblr from the folks at NatGeo. 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: Abijah & Co. Read more
The headline in The Kansas City Star seems innocent: "Secrets of Tyler Deaton's prayer group emerge." But those "secrets" refer to allegations of prolonged cruelty, manipulation, assault, abuse and murder. The story reads like one of those horrifying texts of terror from Genesis or the book of Judges. And it ends the same way those stories do, with an innocent woman tormented and left for dead. Read more
Here's the third list that I've started compiling, and so far it's embarrassingly short. That's evidence, I take it, that my own blog-reading habits have been even more culturally circumscribed than I had realized. Read more
The Republican Party and white evangelicalism face the same problems. Both have become dominated by white male perspectives and have come to serve primarily the interests of those who share that perspective. Both have attained and maintained power by marginalizing everyone else -- everyone who is not a straight, white, Christian male. Read more
Some Monday morning links, featuring Christ the King, where God begins, Jerry Falwell's Jesus, evangelical resentment narratives, Scottish witch-prickers, Cary Grant, Seamus Heaney and proselytizing Presbyterians. 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: "She has hidden her son." Read more
The student's beliefs are factually wrong -- demonstrably so. Her beliefs are based on poor exegesis, scientific ignorance, a haughty disdain for others, and a preference for fearful lies over objective truth. Yet they remain her beliefs. And thus, Rutherford says, she has a legal right to be foolishly, fearfully wrong. Read more
Uwe Reinhardt says Europeans visiting the U.S. marvel at infrastructure that reminds them of the 1960s; Alex Knapp points out that if the Earth is only 9,000 years old, then none of our technology should work; Rachel Held Evans discusses her least-favorite adjective; and Richard Beck discusses the economy of submission. Read more
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