Links on what's at stake in Tuesday's election: Rewarding "campaign politics at its cynical worst;" waterboarding; legal discrimination; tax shelters that screw your church; dinosaurs on Noah's Ark; climate change; and making sure the parasitic poors can't have a hot meal. Read more
Nadia Bolz-Weber on the Gospel and The Wizard of Oz; Eric Reitan on climate science and politics; Michael J. Altman on "The Invention of American Evangelicalism;" and Ta-Nehisi Coates on President Barack Obama and Joe Louis. Read more
The problem in this chapter -- and all throughout this series -- is that Buck responds to his own emergency without acknowledging that everyone around him is also facing the very same emergency and the very same stakes. We can forgive a character who steals a loaf of bread to feed his starving children, but we cannot forgive a character who steals that bread from someone else's starving children. Read more
The Powers That Be of Christian patriarchy know that their authority requires them to maintain a monopoly on information and permission. But now the Internet seems to be filled with uppity women thinking, talking, writing and asking questions without official permission from their husbands and pastors and bishops. So TPTB decided to make an example of one such woman -- put her back in her proper place and maybe all the others will learn their lesson. This plan isn't working out quite the way they hoped ... 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: Ahasuerus and Esther. Read more
It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine, you show me yours. Since Tuesday is Election Day, this week's theme is elections, politicians, presidents, mayors and city council members (except I don't have any songs about city council members). Read more
"President Obama has shown a firm commitment to using government to help foster growth. He has formed sensible budget policies that are not dedicated to protecting the powerful, and has worked to save the social safety net to protect the powerless. Mr. Obama has impressive achievements despite the implacable wall of refusal erected by Congressional Republicans so intent on stopping him that they risked pushing the nation into depression, held its credit rating hostage, and hobbled economic recovery." Read more
What happens if Obama wins? The sky will fall, the moon will turn to blood, the seas will boil, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria! Just ask Franklin Graham, Janet Porter, Joseph Mattera, Rick Joyner, Rick Santorum, Bishop Harry Jackson, Bryan Fischer, Jan Markell, Matt Barber, Matt Staver, Ralph Reed and other dim-bulb luminaries of the religious right. Read more
Does Mit Romney disagree with Tim LaHaye? Not at all, he insists in this video. Watch as Romney, in full don't-interrupt-me-while-I'm-interrupting debate mode, reassures premillennial dispensationalist prophecy enthusiasts that he believes exactly what they believe -- just with a little bit of extra Missouri. Read more
Stephen Strang has crammed almost as many falsehoods into his endorsement of Mitt Romney as Romney himself manages to pack into a campaign speech. The Charisma magazine publisher is bearing false witness, quoting David Barton, and exposing himself as a partisan hack with lies about forced abortion and the persecution of Christians by a secret-Muslim president. Read more
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