by Tom Goodman
In the “Complaint Restraint” project” people try going a month without complaining. Here’s how.
Perfect harmony: how singing in a choir can make us more ‘moral’
“The ever-expanding list of initials used to refer to sexual identities [has reached] new heights of absurdity or sensitivity, depending on one’s perspective. We are now apparently up to fifteen letters: LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM.” Trueman.
The Atlantic’s “What ISIS Really Wants” is an important article already widely-referenced, so don’t miss it. ISIS, says the author, is like “the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million….In conversation, they insist that they will not—cannot—waver from governing precepts that were embedded in Islam by the Prophet Muhammad and his earliest followers.” It’s true—and a relief—that many mainstream Muslim organizations reject ISIS as “un-Islamic,” but Princeton scholar Bernard Haykel, “the leading expert on the group’s theology,” told the author that these organizations are merely part of an “interfaith-Christian-nonsense tradition” (ouch) and have “a cotton-candy view of their own religion” that neglects “what their religion has historically and legally required.” The author reaches Haykel’s same conclusion, saying of the ISIS supporters he’s interviewed: “To call them un-Islamic appears, to me, to invite them into an argument that they would win.”
In this post, Roger Olson laments the unwillingness of “moderate” Baptists to regulate the theological orthodoxy of those who affiliate with them. Would “inability” be a better word than “unwillingness,” though? No doubt, there are many “moderate” Baptists I count as co-laborers in Christ. But surely a movement that began with the solitary demand for “soul liberty” should not be surprised to find themselves unable to police their own ranks.
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