Pinkqual Sign
My facebook page, like yours probably, has been a sea of red and pink equal signs this week while the Supreme Court hears arguments about marriage equality. This has predictably brought out the usual...
View ArticleI Heart Sex Workers
Lia Scholl, I Heart Sex Workers: A Christian Response to People in the Sex Trade, (Chalice Press, 2013). Rev. Lia Scholl was one of the first contributors we had to Two Friars and a Fool when we moved...
View ArticlePenny Arcade, Isms, Phobias, and the Zone of Proximal Development
This is going to be one of those posts where I take apparently unrelated things and talk about them together because that’s how my brain works. There have been a lot of kerfuffles about race, gender,...
View ArticleThe Connection Between Conscience and Disgust
I would like to thank the Rev. Thabiti Anyabwile for arousing my conscience, though not in the way he intended, with his blog post entitled, “The Importance of Your Gag Reflex When Discussing...
View Article5 Arguments In Defense of Sexy Halloween Costumes
I have watched, read, and listened to a number of arguments against the undeniable trend of sexy Halloween costumes. Some were well reasoned, most were passionate, a couple were hilarious (no one does...
View ArticleContraceptives Are One of the Greatest Ethical Achievements Ever
A for-profit corporation wants a religious exemption from being required to allow their employees to use health-insurance they earn with their labor to acquire doctor-prescribed contraceptives. The...
View ArticleAmanda Palmer, Macklemore, and Dismantling the Institution of Marriage
Macklemore sang “Same Love” and 33 couples, some of them same-sex couples, were married on stage at the Grammys. It’s the latest in a chain of flashing neon signs that the cultural debate on this issue...
View ArticleKilling a Good Priest
If you’re going to see one movie this weekend… it will probably be Guardians of the Galaxy. So go see two movies and make one of them Calvary. It is an incredible work of art that does a number of...
View ArticleRape Culture Is Written In The Stars
That beautiful constellation of seven stars to the right is called the Pleiades. In Greek mythology the Pleiades were seven nymphs, daughters of the Titan Atlas who followed Artemis around in the...
View ArticleMajor Arguments Against Marriage Equality, Equally Crushed
Edit: Changed the title to be more clear. We’re always happy to cause trouble, whether it’s a good idea or not. Five years ago now (wow, we’re old), we published and distributed a resource document in...
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