Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Jeremy Lott's Diary

Home
Evangelical

2012-06-28T18:25:25-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Ed Crane Has Left the Building

Last updated on: June 28, 2012 at 6:25 pm By Jeremy Lott

So it looks as though the Koch v. Cato struggle is drawing to an end. Ed Crane will be out as president of the Cato Institute at the the end of September. John Allison, former president of the megabank BB&T will take over the reins then, not as interim president but as the guy who will run the show indefinitely. Here’s the detailed Cato press release and here’s Dave Weigel making the case that this is a win for the... Read more

2012-06-26T19:29:57-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Better Safeway Than Sorry

Last updated on: June 26, 2012 at 7:29 pm By Jeremy Lott

“Did you show them your beard?” That’s what Real Clear Science editor Alex Berezow wanted to know after he learned I’d been carded at the Lynden Safeway. What happened was I went shopping for a few groceries this evening and snagged two beers on the way to checkout. The checkout girl asked to see my ID. I was visibly flabbergasted. She tried to come up with a reason why the question she’d just posed wasn’t absurd to the nth degree.... Read more

2012-06-27T12:53:22-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Where’s Wojtyla?

Last updated on: June 27, 2012 at 12:53 pm By Jeremy Lott

This Matthew Lee Anderson piece in the evangelicalish Relevant Magazine cites Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Body and the Apostle Paul. Its title is “The Theology of the Body.” What could it possibly have left out? UPDATE: The author has replied here. Read more

2012-06-26T10:48:04-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Only in Bellingham

Last updated on: June 26, 2012 at 10:48 am By Jeremy Lott

Why, yes, that is a Mazda Miata towing a large, recently used dirt bike with a Jack-in-the-Box in the background. Read more

Evergreen

2012-06-25T01:11:30-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Deadwood and Dying

Last updated on: June 25, 2012 at 1:11 am By Jeremy Lott

Man, the Deadwood mini-marathon tonight got awkward. Friends first took great efforts coax me out of a chair onto the couch. They then remarked that I looked tired and uncomfortable and was something the matter, Jeremy? Instead of walking them through the long answer, I kicked up my feet on the coffee table, made a joke, and we went back to watching. They didn’t pry, yet it’s unlikely they bought it. Not sure I would have bought it if I... Read more

Lit Life

2012-06-24T12:49:11-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Devout This!

Last updated on: June 24, 2012 at 12:49 pm By Jeremy Lott

This morning, I would have been almost on time for Mass. Fortunately, yours truly got so caught up with a Darrell Issa interview on the radio that Father Flapdoodle’s homily was half-way over by the time I walked in. Listening to him tell us the story of his week made me wish I had listened to This Week a little longer. The above is included to demonstrate, dear reader, that I am not a devout Catholic. “Devout” is an emphatic.... Read more

Adventures in Catholicism

Catholics

Father Flapdoodle

2012-06-22T14:52:54-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Saturday Night Dead

Last updated on: June 22, 2012 at 2:52 pm By Jeremy Lott

For over a decade, my fair state had its own version of Saturday Night Live. It was called Almost Live! and oh how I miss it. To play you out for the week, here’s one of my favorite bits from it called “Folk Songs of the Slightly Inebriated.” Read more

2012-06-22T11:45:01-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

A Good and Loving God Wouldn’t Allow X

Last updated on: June 22, 2012 at 11:45 am By Jeremy Lott

My Real Clear Religion deputy Nicholas G. Hahn III just called me to say that it was my turn to do the weekend update. I was nearly inconsolable. “Nick,” I asked him, “how can a good and loving God stick me with the weekend update?” “I don’t know,” he said, “but it’s your turn.” Obviously, he’s never heard of theodicy. Or guilt trips. Read more

Shop Talk

2012-06-22T11:29:41-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Misunderestimating Mormonism

Last updated on: June 22, 2012 at 11:29 am By Jeremy Lott

This is one of those times where one probably ought to announce one’s biases up front so as to avoid any misunderstanding: I do not believe Mormonism to be metaphysically true because I accept a different and competing set of metaphysical truths. While I cannot claim to have given the Latter-Day religion every possible consideration, I have a) had Mormon missionaries over to my house for several weeks running; b) read parts of the Book of Mormon; c) read articles... Read more

Sermons and Soda Water

heaven

Mormons

2012-06-21T21:27:56-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Commencement

Last updated on: June 21, 2012 at 9:27 pm By Jeremy Lott

Looking for a gift for a friend, I tripped over a small booklet by novelist David Foster Wallace titled This Is Water. I’m quite late to the game here. The volume is an only slightly cleaned up transcript of a commencement address Wallace delivered to Kenyon College in 2005 and “went viral” on the Internet long before we had a term for it. Wallace killed himself in 2008 and This Is Water was published posthumously. It’s a morbid interest of... Read more

Lit Life

David Foster Wallace

Kenyon College

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz

What was the primary form of greeting in Biblical times?

Select your answer to see how you score.

Kiss Bow Wave Handshake

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category 1600 24 Frames Per Second Adventures in Catholicism Evergreen Gay Old Time Hammockonomics Lit Crit Lit Life Paulistas Philosophy Press Crit PSA Q&A Sermons and Soda Water Shop Talk Silly Season Sounds Stupid Stupid People Uncategorized Warm Bucket Brigade Wine and Women Wisdom for the Ages

Select a Month April 2015 February 2015 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012

TRENDING AT PATHEOS Evangelical