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October 2014

October 27, 2014

This is a big deal: David Gushee’s ‘Changing Our Mind’

"It is difficult to overstate the potential impact of Gushee’s defection. His Christian ethics textbook,...

October 22, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (10.22)

Greta Christina on "A Woman's Room Online;" Isabel Wilkerson on "the haunting symmetry of a...

October 16, 2014

You can fight City Hall (but if you take them to court, they get lawyers, too)

Fighting City Hall doesn't automatically make you the Good Guy. But it doesn't automatically make...

October 15, 2014

‘Are we capable of welcoming these people?’

Tone is always irrelevant when you're telling someone that you are not capable of welcoming...

October 14, 2014

What’s going on with the Vatican?

"Are we capable of welcoming these people?" the Synod on the Family asks. It's a...

October 10, 2014

The case of the missing letter and the poisoning of the well

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is not pleased with my forthright translation of his column at The Week....

October 08, 2014

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry displays some sleazy ethics in his lecture on Christian ethics

Writing for The Week, Gobry's "Why so many Christians won't back down on gay marriage"...

October 07, 2014

USC hires a good guy as a humanist chaplain, and you’ll never believe the surprising way that RNS chose to report it

I hope that's sarcasm, because if it's not, then Jonathan Merritt is pointing to the...

October 01, 2014

Mr. Chesterton, Tear down that fence! (more on ‘accommodating the prevailing culture’)

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up,"...

October 01, 2014

If you’re fighting to preserve the status quo, you cannot accuse those who seek to change it of ‘accommodating to the prevailing culture’

Defending the status quo of the prevailing culture by accusing those trying to change it...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (9.25)

Lt. Col. William J. Astore (USAF, ret.) on the American cult of bombing; James Woods...

September 12, 2014

Again, ‘liberal theology’ is not theology as done by people with ‘liberal’ politics

I did not become an LGBT-affirming Christian because of some scholarly research on the best...

September 08, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (9.8)

Dahlia Lithwick on the exoneration of Antonin Scalia's poster-child for the death penalty. Nancy Wilson...

September 03, 2014

Ratcheting justice

It's certainly possible to make the journey toward justice in the other direction, but it...

August 2014

August 18, 2014

Postcards from the culture wars (8.18)

"Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does...

August 04, 2014

No more crying on Sundays

"And when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing. ... Then...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

Obama also did not create a religious exemption permitting discrimination on the basis of race or sex

The Rev. Canon Susan Russell, who blogs at An Inch at a Time, wound up changing...

July 21, 2014

Love and justice are what give us ears to hear

Let me revisit what I'm trying to say in the previous post -- "Without justice,...

July 21, 2014

Without justice, we’re not reading the same book

We will never produce justice as a result of better biblical understanding unless we also...

July 14, 2014

If ‘evangelical morality’ harms others and can’t justify itself, is it ‘unfair’ to mention that it’s losing the argument?

Evangelical morality is not losing the argument because it is insufficiently "progressive." Evangelical morality is...

July 12, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (7.12)

The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings on the Christians who would have turned Jesus and Mary...

July 09, 2014

Whatever happened to the clobber texts for slavery? (Unlearning the lies, cont’d.)

When we see this text on the home page of this blog, we will know...

July 08, 2014

Gatekeepers are losing their grip

The problem with banishing members of the tribe for this thought crime, though, is that...

July 02, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (7.2)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the kind of humans loved by God; Joan Chittister and Randall Maurice...

July 02, 2014

I guess it could have been a dream

Some late-night links (depending where you are), including: Gay weddings at the Creation Museum; latest...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

I try to describe it, can never succeed

Some Friday night links, including: chemtrails over Arizona, a political candidate's joyriding, the Nicholas brothers,...

June 25, 2014

Heterosexual marriage still unthreatened in all 50 states

No-fault divorce laws did not mandate that Catholic priests had to start sanctifying remarriages. The...

June 25, 2014

Don’t even speak of the beat menace

Some links to help you withstand the devious plans of the beat menace, including: Mormon...

June 20, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (6.20)

Flannery O'Connor assesses Ayn Rand. Christian Piatt and Carolyn Dupont on churches grappling with equality....

June 18, 2014

My interview with N.T. Wright on marriage equality

Well, that was ... disappointing. I apologize for presuming that Wright was going to have...