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Yesterday’s false story on the UCC dropping the Trinity got it backwards: it’s about all the UCC congregations do agree on. And that’s okay.

For three months, the city of Windsor, Ontario was abuzz with the story of a Virgin Mary statue that wept tears of oil. Ensconced in a small shrine built on Fadia Ibrahim’s front lawn, the statue attracted hundreds of pilgrims, though it caused havoc for neighbors, city officials, and…

Adios to God the Father? More like adios, credibility.

Thoughts on Lind’s essay.

A history of what began as a clique of kids on the street, developed into a disciplined organization that reordered the nature of gang relations in Chicago (inaugurating the alliances of various gangs under the umbrella “People” and “Folk” labels), and was reinvented by its “Chief” as first a Moorish Science and then an Islamic religious organization; all the while running a variety of criminal enterprises, culminating in negotiations with the Libyan government with the hopes of being paid in exchange for unleashing certain amount of targeted violence in Chicago. There’s a series of huge stories here, and this book—while certainly the best resource on the subject—is hurt by the sheer range of material it has to address.

“If I were to think of a use that I would want my book to be put to, it’s to try to provide for anti-capitalist Christians a more theologically robust response to that kind of thing, something that goes beyond proof-texting and presents a more convincing theological argument.”

As debt doomsday nears, it’s time to look at how tax breaks for the rich are breaking the economy.

What happens when a breakthrough in technology leaves religious scholars without much to go on?

Turnout, not religion, wins elections.

Welcome back from vacation.