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Wow. What hor­ri­ble news.

Got news? Egypt­ian Copts tor­tured for some strange rea­sonGot news? Egypt­ian Copts tor­tured for some strange rea­son

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Heh. I bet that there’s at least one DC com­ic in which the East­er Bun­ny actu­al­ly makes an appear­ance.

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Tagged: DC, DC comics, Comics, Bat­man, Robin, TFSH, Texts From Super­heroes, East­er, Hap­py East­er, Young Jus­tice, Dick Grayson, . itend­toram­ble reblogged this from crash­ingth­at­mode · vividly‑v likes th…

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I just read a very insight­ful dis­cus­sion about race and Chris­tian­i­ty between Thabiti Anyab­wile and Doug Wil­son: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/thabitianyabwile/2013/04/02/a‑black-and-tan-round-up/ — it’s long but worth­while (tip: I opened up all the links in new tabs and worked through them one at a time).

A “Black and Tan” Round-Up

For the past cou­ple of weeks, Dou­glas Wil­son and I have car­ried on a dis­cus­sion of his book, Black and Tan. The book and its pre­quel, South­ern Slav­ery As It Was, trig­gered con­tro­ver­sy that’s last­ed th…

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What an unex­pect­ed and inter­est­ing per­spec­tive. Tyler Cowen may just be my favorite blog­ger.

The cul­ture of guns, the cul­ture of alco­hol

I receive many emails ask­ing me what is my atti­tude toward guns and gun con­trol. I would say I wish it worked bet­ter than it does (a key point), I don’t think it works very well, I am hap­py to

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Choco De Jesus, one of the pas­tors from my denom­i­na­tion (the Assem­blies of God), is fea­tured on the cov­er of TIME mag­a­zine. Con­grat­u­la­tions, Pas­tor Choco! http://georgeowood.com/pastor-choco-graces-cover-of-time-magazine/ 

Pas­tor Choco in TIME Mag­a­zine

A big con­grat­u­la­tions is in order today to our AG broth­er, Pas­tor Choco. His image graces the mul­ti-fold cov­er of TIME mag­a­zine today as a leader of the His­pan­ic Evan­gel­i­cal Com­mu­ni­ty. Sev­er­al AG p.…..

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Dr. Bill New­some, recent­ly tapped to co-chair the BRAIN ini­tia­tive, is a fol­low­er of Jesus. I’ve had him preach in my Chi Alpha min­istry before. You can see him being inter­viewed about the BRAIN ini­tia­tive at http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/newsome/ and see him talk­ing about his faith at http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2006summer/newsome.html

Of two minds — Stan­ford Med­i­cine Mag­a­zine — Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty School of Med­i­cine

By WILLIAM NEWSOME. When I dis­cuss reli­gion with my fel­low sci­en­tists — which is not often — I find that many per­ceive reli­gious faith as a unique­ly irra­tional aspect of human life andthere­fore high­ly…

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I tru­ly, tru­ly feel bad about laugh­ing at the Jesus Hye­na. And yet I am still laugh­ing.

Chrisendom: The­o­log­i­cal vocab­u­lary of the day: “to jesus” (verb)

The­o­log­i­cal vocab­u­lary of the day: “to jesus” (verb). jesus­ing. Now let’s gerund this baby, and lop off the “ing” as well. And we get: IMG_2427 · down­load. Antonym: jesushye­na · IMG_1622. post­ed by Ch…

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“One of the most awk­ward and painful truths in Amer­i­can high­er edu­ca­tion is that it is per­fect­ly legal for pri­vate col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties — on the left and right — to dis­crim­i­nate against peo­ple who refuse to fol­low, or at least respect, the teach­ings at the core of these vol­un­tary asso­ci­a­tions. How­ev­er, and this is the tricky part for many jour­nal­ists, these insti­tu­tions must use a truth-in-adver­tis­ing approach when deal­ing with poten­tial stu­dents, fac­ul­ty and the pub­lic.” — this sum­ma­rizes the sit­u­a­tion per­fect­ly and is some­thing that many in the media seem to miss. A place such as Van­der­bilt can dis­al­low Chris­t­ian groups from requir­ing their lead­ers to be ortho­dox Chris­tians, but it needs to let stu­dents know that before they enroll. It will affect peo­ple’s deci­sions.

Abor­tion, rights, view­point dis­crim­i­na­tion and Johns Hop­kins

tmatt | Acad­e­mia, Peo­ple, Pol­i­tics, Social Issues

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This makes sense to me. If you think envi­ron­men­tal­ism is not a reli­gious belief then I sub­mit that you either don’t under­stand envi­ron­men­tal­ists or that you don’t under­stand reli­gion. This is dou­bly true for veg­ans. Bonus: my favorite veg­an joke is http://lolsnaps.com/news/41045/0/

Veg­ans and Envi­ron­men­tal­ists Should Have Same Work­place Rights as Chris­tians, Says Britain

Updat­ed equal­i­ty guide­lines offer pro­tec­tions for employ­ees with ‘pro­found per­son­al beliefs.’

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“I feel like Moses in a room full of water.” This guy cracks me up. Inci­den­tal­ly, the point he makes is very legit. Read The Halo Effect by Phil Rosen­zweig to learn more.

Scott Adams Blog: Management/Success/Leadership: Most­ly Bull­shit 03/12/2013

The Offi­cial Dil­bert Web­site fea­tur­ing Scott Adams Dil­bert strips, ani­ma­tion, mashups and more star­ring Dil­bert, Dog­bert, Wal­ly, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dog­bert’s New Rul­ing Class and mor…