"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
"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
I'm not a fan of astrology. I do not believe in it -- do not believe it is true or helpful. As such I regard it with suspicion as a vehicle for hucksters. But then I'm a Christian -- an American evangelical Christian. So I'm not in any position to dismiss a belief system just because it may have been exploited by disingenuous hucksters over the years. 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: Cain and Abel. Read more
Sarah Sentilles has a remarkable essay in the Harvard Divinity Bulletin on “Sexist responses to women writing about religion.” Sentilles writes: Part of the challenge of writing is the struggle to believe you have something worth saying. More than half the battle is making your way to the page, cutting through self-doubt and shame and questions about whether or not your project matters. I imagine this is a universal struggle, part of what it means to be an artist. But... Read more
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