All comments still exist, but they’re not being displayed. I assume this is the result of Patheos tech people trying to fix the timestamp/attribution problems with the imported-from-Blogger comments. You should still be able to make new comments, so just be patient waiting for the old ones to come back and think of this as a moving aftershock. Read more
— 1 — I’ve been blogging here at Patheos for a week now, and these are my first quick takes in situ, so it seems appropos to give you all a little more of a sense of who I am outside this blog. This is probably as good a sum-up of my life as you can get: I had a lot of trouble explaining all the rules of roller derby to my language tutor since it was only my third... Read more
I’d still like more responses to the questions I posed to opponents of gay marriage yesterday, but, since turnabout is fair play, I’ll take a crack at some of the questions you guys asked about bisexuality in the thread. I’ll answer any others on this topic in the comments. UPDATE: there’s still confusion in the comments so here’s the tl;dr takeaway: Bisexuality is totally unrelated to polyamory. Bisexuality describes the set of people who might attract you. Polyamory specifies what... Read more
(UPDATE: It looks like some of you have questions about bisexuality. Feel free to ask them in the comments and I’ll answer them in tomorrow’s post) Today is National Coming Out Day (the link goes to Lambda Legal, not HRC, since Lambda puts donations to work on activism and HRC throws party for legislators without much to show for it). That makes today a good day to mention that I’m bisexual to any new readers I’ve picked up here at... Read more
Temporary marriage (no, not that kind) has been all over the news since some Mexico City lawmakers started pushing for marriage contracts that expire after two years. I don’t know enough about Mexico City politics to guess whether this proposal has a chance of passing or whether it’s a vanity bill, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped the blogosphere from bewailing it as the latest sign of the marriage apocalypse. Instead of defending marriage, religious leaders should work on... Read more
Man, did I pick an auspicious time to transition to Patheos; it’s Ada Lovelace Day. Ada Lovelace Day aims to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths by encouraging people around the world to talk about the women whose work they admire. This international day of celebration helps people learn about the achievements of women in STEM, inspiring others and creating new role models for young and old alike. Ada Lovelace is widely held to have... Read more
Welcome to the official launch of Unequally Yoked here on Patheos! Technical note first: if you run into any problems, please post a comment in the bug-spotting thread. Now, let me introduce myself properly: I grew up with atheist patents in a pretty secular neighborhood (when we learned about the Reformation in AP Euro, one student asked if Lutherans still existed today). I didn’t know any particularly religious Christians until college, when I joined a debating group that had knockdown,... Read more
Tomorrow is the official opening day for Unequally Yoked at its new home here at Patheos. There will be a an intro to the blog post for new readers, some thoughts about the move for old readers, and probably an off-topic link to something science-y for me. But before that still more glorious dawn, there’s going to be some troubleshooting. The Patheos people have done a great job migrating over the entire archives and comments, but I’m sure there will... Read more
Over at Virtuous Pla.net, Father Ryan Erlenbush has posted a primer on guardian angels. Generally, this whole topic tends to fall into the same category as the Trinity in yesterday’s post: it’s a hypothesis so dependent on Christianity already being true that it feels pretty irrelevant to comment on here. The reason I remark on it at all is because the specifics of the piece are setting off my scriptural fanfiction detector. Here are some of the specifics Fr. Erlenbush... Read more
In a recent RCIA class, the lecturer was going over the concept of the Trinity and mentioned this doctrine was often the target of attempted atheist debunking. According to him, atheists latch onto 3 != 1 as proof that Christianity is riddled with irrationality. He then offered a riposte to this objection and moved on with the explanation. I feel obligated to point out that the 3 != 1 is not the true rejection of any atheist I know. There... Read more
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