If I post these links today I can still claim them on my 2012 taxes. Featuring: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Howard Thurman and Jack Klugman; a minor fall and a major lift; Whites in America; the pope inadvertently condemns reparative therapy; and a TV news blooper reel for the year. 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: Zimri and Cozbi. Read more
Ed Brayton writes the blog Dispatches from the Culture Wars, which I've been enjoying for many years. And he's one of the driving forces behind the FreethoughtBlogs community. And he's just had open-heart surgery, which comes with medical expenses and the expense of not writing as much while recovering. Read more
"Death elasticity," Carney writes, "does not necessarily mean that greedy relatives are pulling the plug on the dying or forcing the sickly to extend their lives into a lower taxed period." It may just be that rich people are so unpatriotic and stingy that if you threaten to tax them, they'll never die. Read more
Let's ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive and take a look at reasons to celebrate, including: "All You Need Is Love;" a gun dealer has a change of heart; praise for a role model and a peacemaker; Muslims help Christians celebrate Christmas; Illinois clergy come through; executions decline; and cool new ideas to save lives from landmines and pancreatic cancer. Read more
Philippians 2:3-11: "Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus." Read more
Leftovers from a slow week: Reading the Bible alphabetically, "Twas the night before Rapture" (not a parody); the Pope of the Nones; "in-your-face" evangelism and its Unitarian Universalist opposite; Fr. Jim Martin revisits some parables; and jaw-dropping pics from Phil Plait. Read more
Just in case you missed something this week, here are the 10 posts that got the most traffic in the week ending Friday. Read more
It doesn't matter if the evangelical gazillionaire owners of Hobby Lobby believe that emergency contraception causes abortions. It does not do that. Nor does it matter if this belief is passionately sincere and sincerely passionate. Sincerity and passion won't make it any less incorrect. Read more
Following their losses in the 2012 elections, Republican officials across America have stepped up their outreach efforts to improve their standing with black voters, voters over age 65, college students, disaster victims, voters with disabilities and women voters. Read more
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