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December 2013

December 03, 2013

7 things @ 9 o’clock (12.3)

Emily Graslie is cheerful even when she's calling out Internet sexism. Child marriage and Vision...

December 03, 2013

6 years ago: Are you there God? it’s me, Huckabee

The creepiest thing about this whole ill-conceived comedy-routine-in-lieu-of-prayer is that it never occurred to Mike...

December 02, 2013

7 things @ 9 o’clock (12.2)

White theologians note that rap music is not white and conclude it is therefore irredeemable....

December 02, 2013

1 year ago: This is my Ouija board story

My illustration, usually so successful at debunking Ouija boards, seemed to have resulted instead in...

December 01, 2013

Sunday favorites

"Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel...

December 01, 2013

4 years ago: The fatuous foolishness of ‘The Manhattan Declaration’

Their own awesomeness is a topic the authors address with relentless relish. Everything else in...

November 2013

November 30, 2013

Today is the feast day of St. Mark Twain

"It was awful thoughts, and awful words, but they was said. And I let them...

November 30, 2013

9 years ago: ‘Almost like a religion’

"Almost like a religion" is exactly right. And the specific religion which it is almost...

November 29, 2013

7 things @ 9 o’clock (11.29)

"Every foreign land is to them as their native country, and every land of their...

November 29, 2013

4 years ago: Pulling a Lieberman

I have enormous respect and affection for Ron Sider, so much so that my regard...

November 28, 2013

Thanksgiving traditions

Listing all the things one is grateful for is one of my least favorite Thanksgiving...

November 28, 2013

2 years ago: Achieving spiritual efficiency through prayer macros

The idea here is to harness the labor-saving logic employed by computer programmers to enable...

November 27, 2013

7 things @ 9 o’clock (11.27)

Pope Francis releases an "apostolic exhortation" that reads like an #Occupy manifesto. If corporations are...

November 27, 2013

1 year ago: Never side with the boss against the people who handle your food

It’s one thing to ask someone to prepare you a chicken sandwich as an expression...

November 26, 2013

7 things @ 9 o’clock (11.26)

Gandhi's favorite Christian hymn. Silent Scream 2. Street preachers, Pagans and hot cocoa. Searching for...

November 26, 2013

6 years ago: Triple Lindy

It’s actually even stranger than that — they have to suddenly switch from arguing that...

November 25, 2013

7 things @ 11 o’clock (11.25)

Mallory Ortberg looks at the book of Revelation as filtered through "Sleepy Hollow." Harvard's Christian...

November 25, 2013

2 years ago: Fake authenticity and pretending not to use hair products

We expect and require our candidates to appear presentable. And at the same time we...

November 24, 2013

Sunday favorites

"Ah, you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the needy...

November 24, 2013

10 years ago: IRD and the CEPAD Affair

Only once did the Institute on Religion & Democracy have any significant real-world impact, and...

November 22, 2013

7 things @ 9 o’clock (11.22)

Congressman votes to drug-screen welfare recipients, then gets busted for cocaine. Fix your collar, Justin...

November 22, 2013

9 years ago: Religious Liberty II

Accommodationists tend to see a tension between the two clauses of the First Amendment. Where...

November 21, 2013

Paprocki’s ‘exorcism’ failed. What does the outcome of this spiritual experiment tell us?

Paprocki's experiment was not a test of the relative power of Christ and the church...

November 21, 2013

7 things @ 9 o’clock (11.21)

There are no victims of Satanic baby-killers, but there are many, many victims of those...

November 21, 2013

2 years ago: The exceptional majority of evangelicals

If I could just get over my own prejudices, I’d realize that most evangelical churches...

November 20, 2013

7 things @ 9 o’clock (11.20)

RIght-wingers "Second American Revolution" draws crowd of dozens. The underwater villages of the St. Lawrence...

November 20, 2013

6 years ago: Brave New Media 2

This is what the distinction between news content and advertising has come down to: the...

November 19, 2013

Lemon Sherbert and Rattlesnakes

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency recently confiscated 50 venomous snakes -- "including rattlesnakes and copperheads and some...

November 19, 2013

7 things @ 9 o’clock (11.19)

Right-wing comics take aim at the poor. A compline from Adam McHugh. "The cries of...

November 19, 2013

10 years ago: Uncivil union

Marriage was a sacrament, Father Bert insisted, yet he was unwilling and unable as a...