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“Legitimate Rape”: a Watershed Moment
Growing up in the 1980s and 90’s, I was inundated with the PC backlash. As in, the public frustration on the part of conservatives toward 1970s era political correctness. Many spent the 1990s screaming about rampant political correctness as if it were some plague on humanity that people ask other people to be respectful. Heaven forbid we champion generosity,…
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No Difference? Really? You Don’t See It? Seriously?
You know I don’t like the easy trap of Left vs. Right. I’m not a Platonist. I don’t dig on dualism. Nor do I take the easy escape hatch of declaring liberals and conservatives are all the same. Lame! But I really can’t help but wonder why people can’t see the difference between these two: It…
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Impatience Killed The Killing
This week’s news that AMC did not renew The Killing came as a shock to no one, but I’m really disappointed. Good shows are hard to come by; particularly ones that draw such emotional responses from their viewers as this one did. If you’ve never watched the show, here’s the one thing you need to know about…
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Banned by TED
It is interesting how easy it is to get banned. In big language, we would say one only needs to question the dominant paradigm. In plain language, we’d say you just need to upset the apple cart. Another way to get banned is by speaking as if you are taking a “side” in a popular “debate” about a…
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My Friend: Right or Wrong
When sticking by our friends, we like to say “My friend: right or wrong!” to prove just how devoted we are. We want to show unconditional support. But most of the time we don’t actually mean unconditional support. We do have a condition: that our friends are actually decent human beings. In other words, we…
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Best Response to Doubters Yet
Tom Ehrich has written the best response yet to the anti-mainline and doom-and-gloom forecasts. Conservative commentators like Rupert Murdoch’s stable and Ross Douthat of The New York Times are feasting on what they perceive as the “death” of “liberal Christianity.” They add two and two and get eight. They see decisions they don’t like — such…
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A Brief, Deep Review of the Wild Goose Festival
I missed the Wild Goose Festival again this year, but Amy Yoder McGloughlin gives a good review, and more importantly, what it means for emergence Christianity. Phyllis Tickle is right. Something is happening in the church. There is something new emerging. And, looking back on church history, it’s not unexpected. In fact, it’s right on…
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Why I Post Liberal Jesus Stuff on Facebook
I like sharing funny stuff on Facebook. In a way, that’s what it is for. I also share political stuff when it is meaningful. Last week, I posted a picture that isn’t very good and I was told so. See what I mean? It’s underlying theology is immature and it strikes the receiver as brazenly…