"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 Vashti. 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 Vashti. Read more
Start your Thursday off with some links, including: St. Augustine on the hermeneutic of love ... St. Augustine on musical farting ... when is communion not communion? ... Strangers on a plane ... Abraham Lincoln: Savior of pigs ... witch trials on Long Island ... and the mark of every real, true Christian: owning a gun. Read more
A fetus has great value, but a fetus is not the same as "a child" and a fetus is not the same as "a living person." Christianity Today once published such views, but anyone who has the audacity to agree with them today, CT's Mark Galli says, is promoting "fake history." Read more
Pat Robertson and Archbishop Al Mohler warn against this dark day ... Tom Doyle on "The Theology of Fear" ... A skeptic goes ghost hunting ... and plenty more treats for your candy basket. Read more
"Some of the Barbosa residents had lived decades there, with everything they owned tucked between the prefab walls of a 60-foot-long trailer. Under previous rules, they had 30 days to vacate and no required help in paying to move." Read more
Miller presents the compelling argument for contraception as the most effective approach to radically reducing the abortion rate. If that is the goal -- as opponents of legal abortion claim -- then the Affordable Care Act is a more effective means of achieving that goal than overturning Roe v. Wade would ever be. 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: The Levite's Concubine. Read more
"For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace -- business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. ..." Read more
Brian McLaren points out that Jesus was answering Thomas' question, not ours; Kelly Nikondeha says Jesus expected us to notice why he was quoting Deuteronomy; and both Ari Kohen and Roland Martin look at the distortions that come from white evangelicals' cherry-picking pretense of literalism. Read more
Jonathan Dudley: "Evangelicals would benefit from pausing to look back at their own history. In doing so, they might consider the possibility that they aren’t submitting to the dictates of a timeless biblical truth, but instead, to the goals of a well-organized political initiative only a little more than 30 years old." Read more
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