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April 2012

April 19, 2012

Smart people saying smart things

Guy Sayles: "Will Majority Religions Protect the Rights of All?" As a Christian and a...

April 18, 2012

Evangelical tribalism and the Protestant ethic (Or, Max Weber doesn’t live here anymore)

In the previous post on this topic, I mentioned that the power brokers and power...

April 18, 2012

A big ball of wibbly wobbly … timey wimey … stuff

If I had a band-aid on my finger and you asked why, it'd be kind...

April 18, 2012

‘Sometimes even the strongest soldier falls’

The following note is posted on LevonHelm.com: Levon is in the final stages of his...

April 18, 2012

Richard Land apologizes, but scandal still dragging down Southern Baptist Convention

Richard Land, the public face of the Southern Baptist Convention, has finally remembered the first...

April 17, 2012

How about a Bread for the World chapter at Rick Warren’s church?

So the simple idea here is to try to get a Bread for the World...

April 17, 2012

… And I’m all out of bubblegum

"In science fiction, if somebody tells you that everything you know is a lie and...

April 16, 2012

De-legitimizing Christians outside the evangelical tribe

Timothy Noah again expresses his frustration with how the "New York Times Mislabels 'Christians'" --...

April 16, 2012

Smart people saying smart things

Matt Stoller: "Corruption Responsible for 80% of Your Cell Phone Bill" (via Susie) Americans continue...

April 16, 2012

April 16

16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail,...

April 15, 2012

Got the world in a jug, the stopper’s in my hand

"If it had been a 10- or 11-foot gator, it might have been a different...

April 15, 2012

A joke and a parable from Peter Rollins

In his contribution to the new anthology Letters to a Future Church, Peter Rollins tells...

April 15, 2012

Sunday favorites

Romans 13:5-7 Therefore one must be subject, not only because of wrath but also because...

April 15, 2012

Richard Land scandal festering in Southern Baptist Convention

Travis Loller of the Associated Press follows up on the Richard Land scandal at the...

April 14, 2012

100 years ago

"If your ship is sinking – Keep Playing."

April 14, 2012

Layout tweaks open thread

OK, so, you've probably noticed a slightly different look here. Patheos is tweaking some stuff...

April 13, 2012

Do Republicans realize they’ve just called for the repeal of welfare reform?

The "welfare reform" passed during the Clinton administration was based on the idea that welfare...

April 13, 2012

Fire chief: ‘It was a very successful rescue’

1. Just because someone runs into a burning building, risking his own life to save...

April 13, 2012

Tonight, just before midnight …

It's Friday the 13th and, somewhere in America, he will return. "If there is no...

April 12, 2012

A pleasure pen, meant for them

"Take me out to the ball game, take me out with the crowd …" "He...

April 12, 2012

The secret conspiracy plotting against religious freedom gets wider

Charles Colson, Dr. James C. Dobson and now Rick Warren have warned us that a...

April 11, 2012

Trayvon Martin: 45 days later is better than never

The Washington Post, "George Zimmerman is charged with 2nd-degree murder in Trayvon Martin shooting": George...

April 11, 2012

Baptists, Southerners appalled by Richard Land

"Racialist-ist" Richard Land remains employed, and unchastened, as the official "ethics" spokesman for the Southern...

April 11, 2012

Bleibe, reste, stay.

"I’m very grateful to Commodore and Jack Tramiel." "It is unclear at this point whether...

April 10, 2012

American evangelical Christianity, ca. 2012

Social Darwinism? Perfectly mainstream, respectable, perceived as compatible with the Bible. Actual Darwinism? "Controversial," only...

April 10, 2012

Rick Warren: An ignorant claim, a dishonest claim, and a tribal claim

1. The ignorant claim. This isn't specifically from Rick Warren's appearance Sunday on ABC's This...

April 10, 2012

Rick Warren: Feeding the hungry robs them of ‘dignity’

So the Rev. Rick Warren was on TV. It didn't go well. Warren, who was...

April 10, 2012

Smart people saying smart things

Anthea Butler: "Days of Reckoning for the Philadelphia Archdiocese" In order to receive justice, the...

April 09, 2012

On Gagnon’s ‘The Bible and Homosexual Practice’ and the Canaanite woman’s daughter

Those with a high view of the authority of the inerrant, infallible scriptures can't be...

April 09, 2012

Bless my heart and bless yours too

"Four months ago we couldn’t even get a gig in our own home town." "People...