Joy Bennett on Christians and the poor; Craig M. Watts on the Bible and private property; Leonard Pitts Jr. on Jim Crow and vote suppression; and Jamie L. Manson on why the Catholic imagination creates support for marriage equality. Read more
Joy Bennett on Christians and the poor; Craig M. Watts on the Bible and private property; Leonard Pitts Jr. on Jim Crow and vote suppression; and Jamie L. Manson on why the Catholic imagination creates support for marriage equality. Read more
Isaiah 5:8 -- Ah, you who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one but you, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land! Read more
Richard Feynman explains fire ... Rick Steves writes a check ... Kirk Cameron vs. Anne Hutchinson ... the American Family Association says not to eat lunch with people who are different ... and if you're going to play "Layla," then you need to play the whole thing, please. Read more
Here is my proposal for theological science fiction. Start with our world, with this world as it is. Now change just two things: 1. Calvinism is true and hegemonic; and 2. God's unconditional elect, those predestined for salvation, are unambiguously and physically marked as such, from birth. Read more
The task of a double-agent is to appear completely loyal while being actively disloyal. You have to reassure the enemy that you're one of them, an enthusiastic supporter of their cause, while secretly doing everything you can to disrupt, delay, sabotage, subvert and foil their plans. Rayford Steele gets this exactly backwards. 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: Jacob & Leah & Rachel & Zilpah & Bilhah Read more
It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine, you show me yours. This week, an opulent list of songs about money, cash, riches, wealth, etc. Read more
Judge Carole Jackson on religious liberty; Brian Walsh on clobber texts; Gregory D. Smith ponders if he counts as an evangelical; and James McGrath says "Don't Worship a God That Isn't as Loving as You Are." Read more
Paul does not tell Philemon what to do at all. He scrupulously, elaborately refuses to do so. Paul's letter, start to finish, is an extravagant exercise in not telling Philemon what to do. And yet Philemon would have to have been an idiot not to have understood exactly what it was that Paul wanted and expected him to do. 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: Ruth & Boaz. Read more
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