I'm willing to give Jerry Jenkins the benefit of the doubt here and guess that repeated close and slow readings of this scene might yield some coherent sequence of physical events. I'd bet that if we gave him a half hour, some graph paper, a white board and some miniature models, he could walk us through all of that and show us what he was imagining in a way that made sense. Read more
It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine and you show me yours. This week, 10 Christmas carols, because now that the mall has stopped playing them, the church can finally start singing them. 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: Pastor's kids. Read more
Brian McLaren writes an Open Letter to a Ugandan legislator; Terence Weldon on "heteronormative;" Rebecca Levi on why worship, for the powerless, must be political; Steven Hill says it's time to double Social Security benefits; and Steve Benen asks why the conservative argument for school vouchers doesn't also apply to housing, nutrition and health care. Read more
In Sunday school and Bible class, I never heard the story of Jephthah's daughter. I was taught, instead, the story of "Jephthah's Rash Vow" -- a monstrous little fable that turns the story in the Bible upside-down, teaching us to side with the villain against his victim. 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: Achan's sons and daughters. Read more
A mid-week collection of links with maybe something like a common theme. Including: poems from the dark stories of Judges; who wears the pants in a Mormon temple?; liking women; sexual harassment allegations at Family Research Council; and the pope's support for bunga-bunga "family values." 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: When to kill your family. Read more
If I don't post these leftover Christmas links now, then I'll have to wait a whole year. David Sedaris, the Westboro Baptist Chipmunks, John Chrysostom, the gift of Jubilee, and more. Read more
Community is a strange word to use for people I've never met. Yet this community of writers, readers, commenters, lurkers, linkers and likers is immensely important to me. So Merry Christmas to all of you in the community of people I've never met. Read more
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