Analyzing Christianity
Ross Douthat outlines the terms of their surrender
Ross Douthat, mouthpiece of the Religious Right, announces his surrender.
Analyzing Christianity
Bill Gothard: To catch a (Christian) predator
I want to introduce you to Christian leader Bill Gothard. He’s got a folksy good-ole-boy crooked smile. He’s at just the right age where an old white dude gets a lot of cachet in certain fundagelical circles, and he’s a rock star in the homeschooling/”purity culture” crowd. And he’s also Read more
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I Don’t Think This Is How Jesus Loved the Little Children.
(TW: Child abuse.) Meet 35-year-old dipshit and criminal Robert David Wright, who was a youth pastor. You’re already cringing, aren’t you? You know what’s coming. And you’re right. Or maybe not right enough. Robert David Wright’s home computer was found to contain all kinds of images of babies being raped. Read more
The Games We Play
Having Tequological Difficulties
Macs are like Miatas in that they don’t ever tend to break, but when they do, they don’t really mess around. I’ll try to keep updating, but please be patient while I get stuff worked out. Not sure what’s going on, probably hard drive as I’ve ruled out most of Read more
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When Christians Do the Right Things for the Wrong Reasons.
I’ve written before about Christians I think who are kinda getting that whole “love your neighbor” thing right, and I like hearing about them just like I enjoy hearing about anybody doing good in the world. When I heard about a group calling itself “Quiet Christians,” I was considering adding Read more
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Forsaking Disbelief, or Not.
You don’t often see Christians talking about their terror of Hell in their out-loud voices. Usually they at least try to make Christianity sound like a voluntary decision they made out of sheer love for their Savior and Messiah, and they try their best to downplay all that stuff about Read more
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Self-Love is Love Too.
To wrap up Love Week, I want to talk about some of the biggest taboos in Christianity: porn consumption and masturbation. I did not masturbate as a Christian. I can’t even claim it was because I was such a true-blue Christian. The embarrassing truth is that I just didn’t know Read more
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High and Low Christianity
Just a quick little note about creationism again, because I saw a link you folks would probably dig. We’ve talked here before about “high and low” Christianity–this idea that there is a “high Christianity” full of high-end theology and education, sophisticated arguments and a whole whale of a lot of Read more
The Games We Play
We’re all in this thing together
Well, I officially have a diabetic cat now. He is about 12 years old, and he is huge and very affectionate and not terribly bright, this cat, and as white and pink as any 80s lithographed fantasy cat. And a few days ago he began flopping around like a walrus Read more
The Games We Play
The love narrative of ‘The Last Unicorn’
Our journey into both love and that happy land of books you really should have read by now and if you haven’t, then you should definitely consider it continues today with The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle. In this book, the author plays with narratives about love. He gently teases them, toys with them, and ultimately honors them.