A "sex scandal may spell the end for Dinesh D’Souza’s once rising star" in the evangelical subculture, Grace writes. "Note, not the fact that he’s been peddling racist and colonialist lies to white Christians for fun and profit for the past forever, but because of what’s assumed about his marriage and sex life." Read more
Morgan Guyton on what Jesus never said to the woman at the well; Rachel Held Evans on the Bible; Scott Paeth on the crucifixion; and Jarm Logue, an illegal immigrant in 1860, responds to an appalling request from his aunt/"owner." Read more
Love, the Family Research Council says, is just squishy, namby-pamby liberal talk for abandoning absolute truth and biblical authority. The Episcopalians chose love over truth, so they're shrinking. If you want your church to grow, according to the FRC, you have to be really, really anti-gay. 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: Joseph and his brothers. Read more
A batch of election-related links for your pre-debate reading (or for reading instead of watching the debate). Consider this your debate night open thread. Read more
"The one thing you don’t address ... the one that must not even be mentioned in a debate with Joe Biden is a tragic car accident. The attempt to elicit sympathy for Romney by anecdotal proxy is a poor enough of a play. The decision to do so via an anecdote about a tragic car accident in a debate with Joe Biden means you’re either a sociopath or possessed of an idiocy of immeasurable power." 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: Judah & Tamar. Read more
This is apparently a thing. Evangelical gatekeepers are terrified of Rachel Held Evans. Her next book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, comes out later this month and already they're panicking. Read more
A collection of locally grown, organic links: Faith is not certainty; love doesn't need fixing; the Bible is not a "manufacturer's handbook;" America is not the church; the bishops don't speak for everybody; your opponents are not monsters; your neighbor's bowl is not your problem; and fairy godmothers are not all imaginary. Read more
The sixth-century synagogue at Beit Alpha may have a mosaic of Helios on its floor. Or it might just have a picture of that chariot guy that they had in the middle of that really nice mosaic we saw at that other synagogue. Because sometimes we just copy what someone else did, even if we're not sure why. Read more
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