"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: Abijah & Co. 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: Abijah & Co. Read more
The headline in The Kansas City Star seems innocent: "Secrets of Tyler Deaton's prayer group emerge." But those "secrets" refer to allegations of prolonged cruelty, manipulation, assault, abuse and murder. The story reads like one of those horrifying texts of terror from Genesis or the book of Judges. And it ends the same way those stories do, with an innocent woman tormented and left for dead. Read more
Here's the third list that I've started compiling, and so far it's embarrassingly short. That's evidence, I take it, that my own blog-reading habits have been even more culturally circumscribed than I had realized. Read more
The Republican Party and white evangelicalism face the same problems. Both have become dominated by white male perspectives and have come to serve primarily the interests of those who share that perspective. Both have attained and maintained power by marginalizing everyone else -- everyone who is not a straight, white, Christian male. Read more
Some Monday morning links, featuring Christ the King, where God begins, Jerry Falwell's Jesus, evangelical resentment narratives, Scottish witch-prickers, Cary Grant, Seamus Heaney and proselytizing Presbyterians. 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: "She has hidden her son." Read more
The student's beliefs are factually wrong -- demonstrably so. Her beliefs are based on poor exegesis, scientific ignorance, a haughty disdain for others, and a preference for fearful lies over objective truth. Yet they remain her beliefs. And thus, Rutherford says, she has a legal right to be foolishly, fearfully wrong. Read more
Uwe Reinhardt says Europeans visiting the U.S. marvel at infrastructure that reminds them of the 1960s; Alex Knapp points out that if the Earth is only 9,000 years old, then none of our technology should work; Rachel Held Evans discusses her least-favorite adjective; and Richard Beck discusses the economy of submission. Read more
A week's worth of leftovers, including: The horrifying nexus of "capitalism, Texas and cable television;" Charisma magazine defends a literal interpretation of the Monster Manual; a would-be prophet shrugs off his latest failure; the heart of darkness in southern California. Read more
Matthew 25:31-46: “Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.” Read more
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