"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 families of Ai. 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 families of Ai. Read more
Some of these are inspiring, some are harrowing, a few are both. Stuff you'll want to read from One Laptop Per Child, Bruce Covert, Michael in Norfolk, Vanessa Vaselka, The Onion, Nicholas Kristof and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Read more
"The outcome of the elections will be determined by the voters' decision as to which of the two candidates is good for America. But if any of them are vacillating in their vote over whether Obama has been a good president for Israel, the answer is yes." Read more
"Hoping to heal a possible rift with so little time left until Election Day, the R.N.C. chairman Reince Priebus said today that there is room for both views in today’s Republican Party: 'Our big tent message to voters should be this: come for the misogyny, stay for the racism.'" Read more
"Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor. Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen." Read more
"Castle doctrine" madness in Montana; ignorance is pride in South Dakota; getting CEOs' email addresses; "Assume Deer Dead" as literature; the truth about chipmunks; spitballing the future of the church for freaks; my early career in five words; and Kate Nash goes through the motions, walks through her part. Read more
"The modern national Republican party is a hot mess, a simmering pot of angry reactionaries driven by selfishness and willful ignorance, whose guiding star is not governance but power, and whose policies and practices are tuned to build an oligarchy, not nurture a democracy. Its economic policies are charitably described as nonsense and its social policies are vicious; for a party which parades its association with Jesus around like a fetish, it is notably lacking in the simple compassion of the Christ." Read more
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
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