Build-A-Bear is the antichrist
Today, a coworker who has young children was explaining to a childless coworker how Build-A-Bear works. This reminded me. I’m surprised that wacko right-wing Christians haven’t started a campaign...
View ArticleScience and mystery
In his latest essay in The Christian Century, Gordon Atkinson explains why we need both science and mystery. As usual, Gordon expresses my sentiments more eloquently than I ever could: Some people see...
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Even more idiocy
What other kind of guide is there for intelligent design? Here’s the publisher’s description of the book (emphasis added): Intelligent Design is one of the hottest issues facing parents and educators...
View ArticlePiss poor sermon
The video is several minutes long, but it’s worth it to listen to it all, trust me. (via Gordon Atkinson, aka Real Live Preacher)
View ArticleJesus Made Me Puke
Rolling Stone sent a reporter undercover to an Encounter Weekend sponsored by Pastor John Hagee’s Cornerstone [Mega]Church in San Antonio. Although I don’t care much for the flippant...
View Article‘Great Pumpkin’ spirituality
From Fred Clark’s latest post on the novel Left Behind: What really matters to [authors LaHaye and Jenkins] is whether or not Buck “truly believes” — whether or not he is, like Rayford, passionately...
View ArticleA beautiful theology
From an interview with Kate Braestrup, Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain to Maine Game Warden Service*: The longer I work and live, the simpler my theology gets . . . Fundamentally, it still...
View ArticleSpeaking of faith, science, and science fiction
One recent episode of the radio program Speaking of Faith is an interview with paleoanthropologist, fiction author and person of faith Mary Doria Russell. She is a fascinating person. During the...
View ArticleScience and religion
The next time I encounter someone who thinks that science and religion are mutually exclusive, I will direct them to this sermon delivered at a synagogue by science journalist Robert Krulwich. By the...
View ArticleA logical next step
The City Community Church here in Austin (which looks like it falls under the emergent church umbrella) now invites people to bring their dogs to worship.
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