Marginal Christianity

    Damon Linker (Illustration by Lauren Hansen | Images courtesy iStock) April 21, 2015   When a school learns that one of its alums has achieved great things, the institution will usually seek to promote those accomplishments. But there are exceptions. If it's discovered, for example, that the former student also happens to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan, or a neo-Nazi, or a convicted felon, then the school will naturally seek to downplay the connection — and to sever any explicit ties between them. To this list of offenses — normally reserved only for bigots and criminals — we can now apparently add opposing same-sex marriage. Consider the recent experience of Ryan T. Anderson. A graduate of the Quaker Friends School of Baltimore, Anderson has achieved far more than most 33-year-olds. He completed his undergraduate education at Princeton and earned a Ph.D. from Notre Dame. He has...

Into the Expectation (Matt Gunter) http://intotheexpectation.blogspot.com/2012/06/my-prejudices-vs-your-prejudices.html Wednesday, June 20, 2012 The difference between my prejudices and your prejudices is that my prejudices (convictions and values so obvious they don’t need explaining) don’t really count as prejudices. They are just the way reasonable, intelligent, faithful [insert whatever self-congratulatory designation suits you] people know things to be. Thus, those who don’t see it that way must be operating out of sin, ignorance, or blind prejudice. And it is, therefore, not mean when we refer to you as ignorant, stupid, afraid, or nefarious. We are merely stating the truth. This is how most contemporary political rhetoric sounds to me. It is how a fair amount of Facebook status updates sound to me - whether the prejudices reflected are conservative or liberal/progressive. Even more sadly, it is also how too much of the 'conversation' on church blogs and listser...