Boldly professing the obvious since 2009
In the wake of the Supreme Court refusing to hear a case challenging the Washington, DC law recognizing gay marriages, DC pastor Anthony Evans has declared a “civil war between the church and the gay community“: “[W]hat the Supreme Court has set up is the greatest civil war between the church and the gay community,” [...] Read more »
Alternet has posted an article, “What Happened When Fundamentalist Christians Tried to ‘Cure’ Me of Homosexuality,” in which “a young gay man recounts his soul-crushing experience being ‘rehabilitated’ by the Christian Right,” taken from “My Nightmare Experience at Teen Challenge,” which was posted on the “Truth Wins Out” blog. (And is that right? Should it [...] Read more »
In the spirit of today’s holiday in honor of one of the greatest men of the twentieth century, I thought it might be good to post a few brief quotes from Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” written April 16, 1963. These words are no less powerful (and needed) today than they were when [...] Read more »
It inevitably comes up every year: the question of how parents of young children should handle Santa Claus. For some, this is a highly impassioned subject; with many liking to remind everyone as often as possible that “Santa” is an anagram of “Satan”—or, if not giving this trite spelling lesson, at least asserting that Santa [...] Read more »
Thomas Friedman has managed to publish a good op-ed in the NYTimes, one in which he looks at America’s shrinking status as a superpower and persistent educational failings (building off two other recent pieces, this one by Michael Hirsh and this one by Robert Samuelson) and ultimately concludes that the real problem has been a [...] Read more »