For those who weren’t keeping track at home…

…Obama only mentioned God in the final sentence of his speech, and in that American Civic Religion Way that politicians do.
Whatever the other knuckleheads in the party are doing at the moment, I still take Obama at his word when it comes to inclusiveness.
His speech was excellent, moving and yet firmly based in reality. I’m [...]

“It’s pronounced ay-gor.”

Sometimes, folks, you just have to shoot fish in a barrel (err, tofu-fish, says the vegan, sheepishly. I mean, not sheepishly, I, aw crap…).
This is why we have Chick Tracts.
You might, as you read this one, be tempted, tempted I say, to think “it must be a joke.” This is someone’s send up of Chick [...]

The cowardice of missionaries

For a long time after my encounter with Evangelical Christianity, I was a bit angry about the whole thing.
Writing about that time gave me a chance to look at it all anew (the last chapter was here. You can use that link to find the earlier portions, too). Have my feelings changed? Am I still [...]