“Find God’s Match For You” (insert TM symbol, please–it’s very important to trademark God’s will). That’s what christianmingle.com claims to do for you. For a not-so-insignificant amount of money, these godly people (located out of the pious woods of Beverly Hills, CA) can help you find the person God wants you to have sex with […]
In a recent issue of the Guardian, Archbishop Rowan Williams (what’s up with those superhero eyebrows?) astutely explains why he is not God’s boxer. Read, read, read. Now that you’ve read the lovely article, consider/do battle with/loathe/etc., whatever (thanks Over The Rhine), a few points I’ve taken from the interview (with points 5 & 6 […]
I just received a copy of Michael Long’s Christian Peace and Nonviolence: A Documentary History. I’m pretty excited about it and would love to give you a full-blown review but that’s reserved for a future journal entry. I can tell you this much: it’s quite thorough and contains sections of scripture, works from the early […]
Ah yes, everything was so perfect back then. Women knew their place, blacks couldn’t attend schools, share bathrooms or eat with whites, it was kosher to be anti-Semitic, and after centuries of hard-work Native Americans were, finally, almost completely decimated. And more importantly . . . we had prayer in school! It was very formative, […]
What’s that sound I hear on the Sunday before the 4th? It’s probably the vast majority of churches in the United States paying homage to its’ nation-state’s tribal deity. Religious rituals, holidays/holy days, and the war-driven liturgy of the masses have turned Uncle Sam and Jesus into siblings (of course, Uncle Sam is the Big […]
It’s so nice to read a glowing REVIEW. It is, indeed, a rare thing. This is not to suggest I deserve it, only that the law of averages must require that, at some point, someone writes something pleasant about something I have written. So, thank you Justin. Even if this is nothing but lies, flattery […]
LifeWay Christian Bookstores. I’ve only been kicked out of four or five of them. Like an Amish gone rogue, I’ve even been banned from one in North Carolina. “We do not tolerate such belligerence from people like you,” I was told. “What do you mean, ‘people like me’? Plus, what’s belligerent about posing a simple […]
My good friend Matt Litton recently honored me with a lovely signed copy of his new and destined to be a classic, The Mockingbird Parables. It’s a terrific book that plunges the depths of Harper Lee’s masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird and surfaces with some incredibly solid and challenging reflections on living a life of Christian faith. It has also outsold all my books . . . combined. I kind of hate the […]
Incredible. Alabama has now trumped Arizona in terms of bigotry toward the stranger. I didn’t think such a thing was possible. All of the fine upstanding moral Christians responsible must be proud . . . and incredibly ignorant of the Bible’s straightforward stance in relation to practicing hospitality to the stranger/exile/alien. Here’s just one example: When […]