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From Sister Carrie to Belle de Jour

baptistplanet — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:42:54 +0000

Persuading to our daughters that heroine Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga: New Moon isn’t someone “any young girl should aspire to be” may be far easier than dealing with Belle de Jour. Bella’s boyfriend is a pathetic, nonexistent vampire. Bella doesn’t exist either, for that matter, no matter how hard twihards may wish. Whereas [...]

Do we still believe this kind of apology?

baptistplanet — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:36:41 +0000

Religious sex offenders are the worst, indicates the available data.

Louisiana Baptist Message to commit Web circulation suicide [Updated]

baptistplanet — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:19:39 +0000

By putting up a pay wall. They have announced “it is very likely” that once their ongoing Web redesign “is complete that a subscription will be required to access all of the Baptist Message’s print content online.” Available public figures suggest that Web users are disinterested in the publication’s content and as a result will [...]

Pwned: OneNewsNow swallows divorce ban parody

baptistplanet — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:45:15 +0000

Please look here. Then look at the OneNewsNow story. OneNewsNow is the American Family Association (AFA) news service and you may wish to tell them, out of kindness, It’sAJoke. Once featured on Cockeyed.com. Sells a funny T-shirt. Joe.My.God., maybe not AFA’s favorite blog, blew the whistle. [H/T for the video: Madam Maracas]

Heterosexual Ted Haggard’s ‘comeback’ with issues

baptistplanet — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:01:40 +0000

Completely heterosexual Ted's prayer-meeting comeback last week was a cause of discomfort right and left.

Uh oh, Orly

baptistplanet — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:52:05 +0000

Pay the $20,000 Orly Birther, or else, orders Judge Clay Land, of the US District Court in the Middle District Of Georgia [order]. TPM notes that much is unclear about the collection procedure. Tagged: birther, birthers

Texas Baptist Standard rediscovers the Texas textbook fight?

baptistplanet — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:37:00 +0000

The BStd Headline: Texas textbook battles have national impact Which we and others have endlessly explained. And? “What we teach in the public schools matters,” [Charles Haynes, senior scholar at the First Amendment Center in Washington, D.C.] told a group at Northaven United Methodist Church in Dallas during the “Faith & Freedom Speaker Series,” sponsored by [...]

‘Good the Mormons! Shame on [Catholics]‘

baptistplanet — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:35:29 +0000

Eduardo Peñalver, Cornell Law School professor who teaches a course on Catholic social thought and the law, writes for dotCommweal: The Mormon Church throws its support behind a Salt Lake City law prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals in housing and employment (HT Andrew Sullivan) . . . Meanwhile, the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. threatens to stop providing [...]

Kentucky 1st in child abuse/neglect

baptistplanet — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:32:43 +0000

Kentucky is 1st in child abuse and neglect deaths, reports Ken Walker of the Western Recorder, that state's Southern Baptist newspaper.

Updated: Evangelistic passion superheats at declining-budget/membership state baptist conventions

baptistplanet — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:52:15 +0000

Tony Cartledge’s overview of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention found budgetary decline and other difficulties masked by a passion for evangelism. The Florida Baptist Index reported the convention there likewise taken with evangelism. FBC Jax Watchdog was gently unimpressed. Ted Traylor was happy, as was Russell Franklin. South Carolina Baptists endorsed a return to [...]