Let’s start 2017 off with a big ol’ pffft to 2016

So last year, I made three resolutions. I am a big fan of resolutions, eve if I am not that dedicated to actually keeping them. For 2016,  told myself I would: Learn to play the banjo Find a church Read the Bible cover-to-cover In fact, referencing the Meat Loaf song above, one out of three ain’t …

Jeremiah was a downer

(And if you’re of a certain age, you’re finishing that title with “Was a good friend of miiine.”) Actually, that’s kind of appropriate, especially the “never understood a single word he said…” As I promised myself earlier, I am reading the entire Bible, cover to cover, this year, in little snippets of three chapters here, four …

Can a Bible be a national security threat?

It can be if it’s the Holman Bible, says Mikey Weinstein. And thanks, DickG., for the link.

Jesus was a radical economist

Remember the Rev. Howard Bess? The Baptist minister clashed with former Alaska governor/former vice presidential candidate/current gadabout Sarah Palin over abortion and gay rights, says about Jesus: Jesus made his reputation as a Jewish economist, one with very strong opinions about wealth and property, about the relationship between the rich and the poor. He also …

Underemployment v. unemployment in one handy picture

Is the Bible a valuable moral guide (religous or not)?

Some say yes. Some say maybe. I say yes — with a long list of caveats. You? And thanks, DickG., for the link.

Democrats = Pontius Pilate?

Rep. Steve King, Pontius Pilate, Democrats

Are Tea Party premises based on scriptures?

Tea Party, Unbiblical

Jesus, the hippie-madman

Jesus, Rowan Atkinson

Bibles to Beck!

Glenn Beck, Liberation theology, Bibles, Serene Jones, Union Theological Seminary