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July 2021

July 29, 2021

When the one-way ratchet goes local (and other news)

Having one of those days, so my brain isn't working well enough to offer more...

July 25, 2021

A two-year-old post that aged uncannily well

An analogy that lands a bit differently than it did before the pandemic and before...

July 24, 2021

Jesus on the mainline

"Mainline Protestantism" may be declining because it is a category created in order to measure...

July 21, 2021

‘For you were [redacted] in Egypt’ (part 4, a slight tangent)

Reading anything in translation always requires a great deal of trust in the capability and...

July 19, 2021

Revisiting Highway 61: All you know is love

We know only in part. And so certain knowledge cannot be the standard for determining...

July 15, 2021

Saving nickels, saving dimes

Pop culture reshapes pop theology which inspires another round of pop culture. And before you...

July 14, 2021

Passing the hat

Alas, this is not an '80s movie and so I cannot rely on the prize...

July 07, 2021

Incentivizing religious insincerity

This is the problem with an approach that simultaneously presumes sincerity and makes the presumed...

July 07, 2021

Smart people saying smart things (7.7.21)

Get smart: Abigail Nussbaum, Kaitlin Curtice, Caroline Matas, Hugh Ryan, David Gushee, Andre E. Key.

July 06, 2021

Ain’t knowing where I been or where I came

"Right now, Christianity is not doing a particularly good job of recommending God to the...

July 03, 2021

Four days of re-runs (for four days of rain)

“Love?” the tesseract says. “That’s nonsense. There’s no such thing as love, only …”

July 02, 2021

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before (re-run week)

Even if it does rain all this week down the shore, there's still plenty to...

July 01, 2021

This bit again? A week of re-runs continues

If you're going to re-run Part 1 of a two-parter, you have to re-run Part...

June 2021

June 30, 2021

Re-runs, re-treads, and golden oldies

I'm going down the shore, so I've scheduled links to and excerpts from some evergreen...

June 29, 2021

‘They are living out a horror story’

"It’s good not to be in a horror movie." Unless that's what you want.

June 25, 2021

‘Hard to plan the day’

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a...

June 18, 2021

Don’t give yourself away

Imagine being a Catholic bishop and refusing to apologize for that.

June 15, 2021

Borne from original sin

"I've a message for you that you'd better believe believe believe believe ..."

May 2021

May 20, 2021

‘We’re nothing, and nothing will help us’

If we don't get the diagnosis right, we won't get the prescription right either. A...

May 19, 2021

‘And the shame, the shame was on the other side …’

It's not quite that "They seem themselves as heroic." It's that they don't, and so...

May 18, 2021

Yes that’s the book for me

Been reading the Bible, and reading stuff about the Bible. Here's some of it.

May 17, 2021

A teeth, taxes, Toyota trifecta

Chewing on the other side is no longer a viable option. That, along with a...

May 17, 2021

When moral revulsion turns to moral evasion

Moral evasion is sometimes not due to malice, but to cowardice -- to a lack...

May 14, 2021

The Flying Baptist and other stories

"I miss the good old days, when instead of meddling in politics, Baptist pastors just...

May 12, 2021

Astounding tales from beyond the outer limits of the twilight zone

A few recent items that both intrigued and disappointed me for their untapped Rod Serling-esque...

May 07, 2021

Refugees, limits and capacity

Our target for how many refugees to welcome should be ambitious. Our legal limit is...

May 06, 2021

The correct number is all of them

The number of refugees legally permitted to be resettled in the U.S. is determined by...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Stuyvesant’s ghost

Started to respond to something else, then got distracted by this ugly wraith.

April 14, 2021

The true fix is not education

Education and critical thinking are Good Things, but they're insufficient for dealing with conspiracy theories....

April 13, 2021

No use wishing now for any other sin

"Complementarianism" is a traditional Christian teaching -- if by "traditional" you mean it dates all...