Just because a train of thought pulls up at the station doesn't mean you need to get on it.
-Cindy Tobisman

http://lifewalkblog.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/a-brief-post-on-biblical-inerrancy/

In the atmosphere of discourse
I will be the smog.

from a poem on blog commenting by Steven Karl Zoltán Brust

"Reading the Bible is a terrific cure for fundamentalism. That's exactly how many of us so-called liberal Bible scholars got our start."
--Greg Carey

From Yahoo!News ( Read more... )

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” - Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82

http://www.sigmaforum.org/

"We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional"
Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
The Washington Post

This guy seems more in tune with my Christian beliefs than does the Pope.

http://johnshore.com/2012/04/11/me-a-christian-apologist-hell-yes/

from The Dominion, newsletter of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island:
The Right Reverend Lawrence C. Provenzano, DD, Bishop, The Episcopal Diocese of Long Island

“Violation of Conscience” or Seeking the Aid of Government in the Enforcement of Religious Teaching?The early February controversy involving the President’s directive that access to ( Read more... )