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Fun­ny, although it miss­es the point of the Gold­en Rule.

Dil­bert com­ic strip for 12/09/2012 from the offi­cial Dil­bert com­ic strips archive.

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…

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Bwa­ha­hah. I love this.

xkcd: Sky Col­or

Prev · Ran­dom; Next >; >|. Per­ma­nent link to this com­ic: http://xkcd.com/1145/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sky_color.png. Select­ed Comics. Search com­ic…

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This is a help­ful way to think about the rela­tion­ship between the­ol­o­gy and faith.

The­o­ry Ain’t Belief–Thank God! | John G. Stack­house, Jr.

Philoso­pher Alvin Planti­nga buries a lit­tle gem of insight in a foot­note to his mas­sive War­rant­ed Chris­t­ian Belief (Oxford, 2000) that per­tains to Christ­mas and East­er espe­cial­ly: But aren’t there man…

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This is a straight­for­ward and thought­ful rejec­tion of the Apoc­rypha as inspired.

Why Do I Reject the Apoc­rypha?

It may sur­prise you to know that I don’t have much of a prob­lem with the Apoc­rapha. I enjoy read­ing it. As well, as a Protes­tant, accept­ing or reject­ing it does not real­ly affect my stand­ing …

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The good news: hate crimes were down by 6%. The inter­est­ing news: “The major­i­ty of those incidents—46.9 percent—were racial­ly moti­vat­ed, fol­lowed by 20.8 per­cent moti­vat­ed by sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion and 19.8 per­cent moti­vat­ed by reli­gion. Inci­dents of reli­gious bias had pre­vi­ous­ly out­num­bered inci­dents of sex­u­al-ori­en­ta­tion bias since at least 1995…”  Things that sur­prised me: how few hate crimes there are over­all, how much greater anti-Jew­ish ani­mus is than anti-any oth­er reli­gion, and how much more preva­lent racial hos­til­i­ty is than any oth­er cat­e­go­ry.

For the First Time, Hate Crimes Against Gays Out­num­ber Those Against Reli­gion: Reli­gious bias had out­num­bered sex­u­al-ori­en­ta­tion bias since at least 1995.

At Chris­tian­i­ty Today, we’re con­stant­ly track­ing impor­tant devel­op­ments in the church and the world. Often we use our net­work of reporters around the world (and for that, vis­it our main site). But we …

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Rich Mullins has long been one of my favorite prac­ti­cal the­olo­gians. Here he is in clas­sic form.

God’s Will for Your Life -

Some­times we become hyper­fo­cused and obsessed over the lit­tle things and lose track of the big pic­ture. In those moments, the sharp con­trast of a new per­spec­tive can be a great way to refo­cus. For tho…

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Sane think­ing on a issue that often seems to be a well­spring of crazy.

Ed Stet­zer — Thurs­day Is for Thinkers with Katie Persinger: Above Reproach, Not Unap­proach­able

Ed Stet­zer writes and speaks on the­ol­o­gy, mis­si­ol­o­gy, church plant­i­ng, church revi­tal­iza­tion, and church inno­va­tion.

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Clear­ly, Lord Vad­er has been busy. See Vad­er Chokes Offi­cer — I find your lack of faith dis­turb­ing for details.

Cen­sus reveals more peo­ple iden­ti­fy as Jedi Knights than athe­ists

The num­ber of Jedi Knights appears to have near­ly halved in the last decade, but still beats the amount of peo­ple who pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fy as athe­ists in Eng­land and Wales, accord­ing to results of the …

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I find this argu­ment plau­si­ble.

Roger Ebert on the medi­a’s cov­er­age of school shoot­ings

From his review of Gus Van San­t’s Ele­phant, a fic­tion­al­ized account of a Columbine-like school shoot­ing, here’s Roger Ebert on the

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This is one of the most mar­velous exam­ples of peo­ple respond­ing to incen­tives that I can think of. Sur­pris­ing and yet obvi­ous in ret­ro­spect.

Snitch­ing mar­kets in every­thing

The pris­on­ers in Atlanta’s hulk­ing down­town jail had a prob­lem. They want­ed to snitch for fed­er­al agents, but they didn’t know any­thing worth telling. Fel­low pris­on­er Mar­cus Watkins, a…