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September 2012

September 19, 2012

Smart people saying smart things

Max S. Gordon: "Proud Americans, Be Who You Are" In other words, I can’t dismiss...

September 17, 2012

I stole a bike from the Second Mile

"Kremer and D'Souza seem to have forgotten one of the first rules of storytelling, at...

September 17, 2012

A question on quorums and unrepresentative elections

In almost any legislative body -- from the U.S. Congress to a middle-school student council...

September 17, 2012

More smart people saying smart things

Katherine Boo: "Reporting Poverty" As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on...

September 16, 2012

Shana Tova

Happy New Year to all who celebrate this day. At Religion News Service, Lauren Markoe...

September 16, 2012

Calvinists, Arminians, atheists and other sub-categories of non-Sheilaism

"Does God Play Duck-Duck-Goose?" Richard Beck asks, critiquing the Calvinist doctrine of "double predestination." That's...

September 16, 2012

Sunday favorites

Nehemiah 5:2-6 For there were those who said, ‘With our sons and our daughters, we...

September 15, 2012

Two long reads worth your time

Here are a couple of recent longer essays, both challenging and insightful, that reward the...

September 14, 2012

Moving quickly to resolve this unfortunate situation

• Sometimes "fact-checking" political claims involves research. Sometimes it just involves remembering. 2008 wasn't that...

September 13, 2012

Smart people saying smart things

Jeremiah Goulka: "Joining the Reality-Based Community" My old Republican worldview was flawed because it was...

September 12, 2012

Just don’t throw it at me

"Hostility doesn’t begin when we encounter the other. It begins when we’re gathered together among...

September 11, 2012

‘The visible symbol of aspiration and faith’

"110 Stories" by John M. Ford. This should be read at least once a year....

September 10, 2012

Cheering for the punter, ‘fraught masculinity,’ and bending toward justice

Chis Kluwe had five punts for an average of 48.4 yards on Sunday in the...

September 10, 2012

Give me cause for love that I can’t hide

The Line: the movie. "Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity." "You may not...

September 09, 2012

Sunday favorites

Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of...

September 07, 2012

More smart people saying smart things

Emily C. Heath: "How to Determine If Your Religious Liberty Is Being Threatened in Just...

September 07, 2012

‘Down with the traitor, up with the star’

"We will welcome to our numbers the loyal, true and brave …" "That is a...

September 06, 2012

We can have political debate or politicized facts, but we can’t have both

First the bad news. In The New York Times, Leslie Kaufman reports on how zoos...

September 05, 2012

Mike Huckabee is lying. Again.

Former Southern Baptist pastor and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is not an honest man....

September 05, 2012

Love dares you to care for the people on the edge

Happy birthday, Freddie Mercury. "If God so clothes the grass of the field, which is...

September 05, 2012

Ken Ham, Andrew Lloyd Weber and lazy KJV-only monoglots

Via Patheos blogger and New Testament professor James McGrath, I learn that Ken Ham of...

September 04, 2012

Do ‘something awesome’

The Community Church of the Open Door "did something awesome." They had a church-wide garage...

September 04, 2012

Why I am not a ‘theistic evolutionist,’ etc., part 2

In the first part of this discussion, I objected to the idea that the modifier...

September 04, 2012

Smart people saying smart things

Neil Williams: "Does Christianity promote tribalism?" What I am concerned about is something different —...

September 03, 2012

Right-wing ‘Messiah,’ ex-con Sun Myung Moon dies at 92

Korean religious leader Sun Myung Moon -- a self-proclaimed Messiah, conservative political donor, and owner...

September 03, 2012

‘Hate sits alone on the hood of his car’

"He tells me that he 'absolutely loved' Johnny Cash, 'Folsom Prison Blues' being a new...

September 03, 2012

Hospitality is better than ‘outreach’

Evangelism is hospitality. And Addie Zierman explains why inflatable Sumo Suits and marketing hype are...

September 02, 2012

Why I am not a theistic evolutionist and why I do not ‘believe in’ evolution (part 1)

BioLogos has listed what it calls "Core Tenets or Assumptions of Theistic Evolution." I mostly...

September 02, 2012

Sunday favorites

Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

‘I finally feel … useful’

"I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." "Jesus is anything but...