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A Christian terrorist wants to become Tennessee’s new attorney general. There’s already someone else in the position. He isn’t resigning. And she’s not even an attorney. But it doesn’t matter because she wants the damn job anyway. Here’s the backstory from my perspective: In 2017, a statue of famed lawyer…

“Then the flaming sheet, with the whirr of a liberated phoenix, would fly up the chimney to join the stars.” Posted by Andrew on 1 May 2020, 9:41 am I’ve been reading a couple of old books of book reviews by Anthony Burgess. Lots of great stuff. He’s a sort of…

in Archives, Books, History, Religion | May 1st, 2020 2 Comments Advertisement Mathematics, astronomy, history, law, literature, architecture: in these fields and others, the Muslim world came up with major innovations before any other civilization did. This Islamic cultural and intellectual flowering lasted from the 11th through the 19th century,…

Garden City Community College in Kansas just paid out $87,500 to six plaintiffs as part of a settlement involving the conduct of administrators. There were many complaints made against GCCC President Herbert Swender (who was fired in 2018) and his team, but one in particular says they forced faculty members…

Miley Cyrus has taken on Pink Floyd‘s 1975 classic ‘Wish You Were Here’ for a performance on Saturday Night Live‘s latest ‘At Home’ episode. Read More: All the TV shows and movies suspended due to coronavirus The singer performed from beside a campfire bathed in dramatic red lighting and was…

Rasha Ali USA TODAYPublished 2:14 PM EDT Apr 25, 2020Jeff Goldblum became a  topic of discussion on social media for his questions about Islam's treatment of the LGBTQ community and women during Friday's episode of "RuPaul’s Drag Race."Goldblum's questions came after contestant Jackie Cox walked the runway in a patriotic…

For some reason, the official Facebook page for the 10th Mountain Division Sustainment Brigade — part of the Fort Drum Army base in northern New York — was posting videos promoting Christianity. The videos urged soldiers to think about God, quoted Bible verses, and told them that Christianity is “so…

by Alex Billington April 24, 2020Source: YouTube "He wanted to destroy the kingdom I've been building my whole life." Film Movement has released the US trailer for a Polish historical epic titled Sword of God, which originally premiered at a Polish film festival in 2018. It also played at Cinepocalypse,…

In place of love, they’re offering stark self-righteous judgment. April 24, 2020 Contributing writer for The Atlantic Getty / The AtlanticIf the coronavirus is a test of our collective character, some American Christians are flat-out flunking.Consider the popular pastor John Piper, who was asked what he would say to pastors…

Discussed in this essay: Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard, by Clare Carlisle. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 368 pages. $28. Throughout its history, philosophy has been marked by figures who sought to demolish the prevailing intellectual systems of their moment—to practice “philosophy with a hammer,” as…